Was The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) hit by ransomware?

The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) was listed by the Moneymessage ransomware operation (Egypt), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Moneymessage ransomware group?

Moneymessage is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) breach?

Moneymessage published data attributed to The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA)

Claimed by Moneymessage · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 17, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Moneymessage
Status: Data leaked
Country: Egypt
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Nov 17, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) is the governmental body responsible for tax administration in Egypt. It oversees collection of income tax, corporate tax, and value-added tax (VAT), and works to modernize tax procedures and provide taxpayer services.

Industry: Government - Tax Administration
Address: Cairo, Egypt

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed breach of critical government tax administration infrastructure with access to sensitive taxpayer data at national scale, though specific proof of exfiltration is not detailed in the post.

The Moneymessage group claims to have compromised the Egyptian Tax Authority. The leak post provides no specific details on what data was exfiltrated or operational impact.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Tax administration records
Taxpayer information
Government systems data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) is the governmental body responsible for tax administration in Egypt. It oversees the implementation and collection of various taxes, including income tax, corporate tax, and value-added tax (VAT). The ETA aims to enhance compliance, improve tax revenue, and support economic development through efficient tax policies and systems. It also works to modernize tax procedures and provide taxpayer services.

Sources

Leak posthttp://blogvl7tjyjvsfthobttze52w36wwiz34hrfcmorgvdzb6hikucb7aqd.onion/news.php?id=1

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Moneymessage

Moneymessage is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major security agencies, detailed information about their origin and affiliations remains largely unknown, though their targeting patterns suggest they may operate as a smaller independent operation rather than a large-scale RaaS model. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across healthcare, business services, public sector, government, and financial organizations, with their 29 documented victims spanning geographically diverse regions including the United States, Italy, Argentina, Bangladesh, and Russia, though specific attack methodologies and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks attributed to Moneymessage have not been widely reported by established security researchers or law enforcement agencies, likely due to the group's relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more prominent ransomware families. The group appears to remain active as of available reporting, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status is limited by the lack of detailed public documentation from authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. The group has been linked to 34 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 29, 2023; most recent post July 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: money message.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 17, 2024The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) listed by Moneymessageon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Moneymessage

Moneymessage has been linked to 34 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Moneymessage dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) is reported in Egypt, a country with 12 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Moneymessage means The Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA) appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on Moneymessage's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.