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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
33m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 6, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

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

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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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

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed has been linked to 68 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full ransomed 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, (SALE) District Of Columbia Elections 600k lines VOTERS DATA is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means (SALE) District Of Columbia Elections 600k lines VOTERS DATA 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on ransomed'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.