Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post October 8, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 23, 2023Accurate Auto Insurance listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Finance sector, which has 92 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Accurate Auto Insurance is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Accurate Auto Insurance

Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 23, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Nokoyawa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Finance
Listed on leak site: May 23, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Accurate Auto Insurance is a Chicago, Illinois-based auto insurance agency founded in 1992. The company offers affordable car insurance, SR-22, motorcycle, rideshare, life, and homeowner's insurance to drivers across Illinois, Indiana, Arizona, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, and Wisconsin. It operates primarily in the metro-Chicago area and markets itself toward high-risk drivers and those seeking low-cost coverage.

Industry: Personal Lines Auto Insurance
Address: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Founded: 1992

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group has published data (data_published status) from an insurance company, which almost certainly contains regulated PII including driver records, insurance policy details, SR-22 filings (tied to license suspensions/DUIs), and financial/payment information at customer scale — meeting the threshold for critical severity.

Nokoyawa claims to have compromised Accurate Auto Insurance and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company and customer data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer personally identifiable information (PII)
Auto insurance policy records
SR-22 filing data
Driver records
Contact and payment information

What the group claims

Accurate Auto Insurance was founded in 1992 in Chicago, Illinois. We have a simple approach to doing business with our auto insurance customers. Accurate provides its customers the most affordable car insurance quotes and the finest customer service. Forming lasting bonds with our...

Sources

Victim siteaccurateautoins.com
Leak posthttp://nokoleakb76znymx443veg4n6fytx6spck6pc7nkr4dvfuygpub6jsid.onion/leak/643b036c3ace4551e2e0196c

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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