Disclosure context

About Royal

Royal is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with over 200 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model, though their exact country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Royal primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns and exploitation of remote desktop protocols, subsequently deploying custom ransomware that encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data for double extortion tactics. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and public services, with notable attacks against educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and government entities primarily in the United States, though they have also significantly impacted organizations across Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Their encryption methodology involves custom-built malware that systematically encrypts files while maintaining persistence on compromised networks. As of recent reporting from federal agencies including CISA and FBI advisories, Royal remains an active threat with ongoing campaigns targeting organizations across their preferred sectors, particularly focusing on entities with limited cybersecurity resources that may be more likely to pay ransom demands. The group has been linked to 211 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 26, 2023Volt listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Data size: 249 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Volt 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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Volt Information Sciences, Inc.

listed as Volt · Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago

249 GB

Data size

36m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 26, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Royal
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 26, 2023
Data size: 249 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Volt Information Sciences, Inc. is a workforce solutions and IT infrastructure services company founded in 1950 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The company serves America's top companies — including 124 of the Fortune 500 — providing contingent, temporary, and full-time staffing across administrative, industrial, engineering, and IT disciplines, with over 100 locations and 31,000 annual placements. It also offers core engineering solutions spanning mechanical, electrical, embedded systems, semiconductor design, and manufacturing operational excellence.

Industry: Workforce Staffing & IT Infrastructure Services
Address: 1455 Lincoln Parkway East, 8th Floor, Atlanta, GA 30346
Employees: 1000+
Founded: 1950

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 249 GB of data has been published by the group. As a large staffing firm serving hundreds of major corporations and managing tens of thousands of workers, the exfiltrated data almost certainly contains large-scale PII (employee, candidate, and client records), payroll data, and sensitive business information — meeting the threshold for critical severity given confirmed exfiltration at scale of regulated/sensitive data.

The Royal ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 249 GB of data from Volt Information Sciences, with the disclosure status indicating the data has been published. No ransom amount was stated, and no details on encryption of systems were provided in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee records
Client/company hiring data
Payroll information
Personal identifying information (PII)
IT infrastructure data
Business operational data
Staffing and placement records

What the group claims

Volt Information Sciences, Inc. provides staffing and information technology (IT) infrastructure services in the United States and internationally.Total downloaded data - 249gb

Sources

Victim sitevolt.com
Leak posthttp://royal4ezp7xrbakkus3oofjw6gszrohpodmdnfbe5e4w3og5sm7vb3qd.onion/BpducXTBMZQxeAamuE0JbbGGSeatFlkW

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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