Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 6, 2023(SALE) District Of Columbia Elections 600k lines VOTERS DATA listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Records: 600K lines

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 509 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, (SALE) District Of Columbia Elections 600k lines VOTERS DATA 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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District of Columbia Board of Elections

listed as (SALE) District Of Columbia Elections 600k lines VOTERS DATA · Claimed by ransomed · listed 3 years ago

600K lines

Records

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 6, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Oct 6, 2023
Records: 600K lines

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) is the independent agency of the District of Columbia government responsible for administering elections, maintaining voter registration rolls, and certifying election results for the nation's capital. It oversees all federal, local, and advisory elections held within Washington, DC. The agency manages voter data for hundreds of thousands of registered voters in the District.

Industry: Government Electoral Administration
Address: 441 4th Street NW, Suite 250 North, Washington, DC 20001
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The claimed breach involves over 600,000 lines of government voter registration PII at scale from a U.S. electoral authority, constituting regulated sensitive data with significant democratic and civil-liberty implications; data has been published/offered for sale.

The group 'Ransomed' claims to have exfiltrated more than 600,000 lines of District of Columbia voter records from the DCBOE, publishing a sample paste as proof and offering the full dataset for sale with no ransom demand stated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Voter registration records (600k+ lines)
Personally identifiable information of registered voters
Sample dataset published as proof

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

We have successfully breached the District of Columbia Board Of Elections and have gotten more than 600k lines of USA Voters: see a small sample here: https://paste.ec/raw/UhDgH8I8#ub86MOR2-yKYUVcuZRbXXW5hQzBXYIHWTmvntzHSEE1 Contact us at https://t.me/RansomedSupport

Sources

Victim sitedcboe.org
Leak posthttp://f6amq3izzsgtna4vw24rpyhy3ofwazlgex2zqdssavevvkklmtudxjad.onion/?p=63

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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