Disclosure context

About Dunghill_Leak

Dunghill_Leak is a relatively obscure ransomware operation that emerged in April 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting small to medium-sized organizations. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited public reporting from major threat intelligence firms and law enforcement agencies. Based on their targeting patterns, the group appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against businesses in English-speaking countries, particularly the United Kingdom, Canada, and United States, as well as expanding operations into South American markets including Brazil and Bolivia, with a preference for victims in business services and technology sectors. With only 16 documented victims since their emergence, Dunghill_Leak operates as a smaller-scale ransomware group compared to major threat actors, and specific details about their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports. The group's current operational status remains unclear, as limited public information prevents a comprehensive assessment of their ongoing activities or potential law enforcement disruption efforts. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 10, 2023; most recent post July 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2023Ropertech.com & Vertafore.com listed by Dunghill_Leakon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Insurance sector. Geographically, Ropertech.com & Vertafore.com 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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Ropertech.com & Vertafore.com

Claimed by Dunghill_Leak · listed 3 years ago

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 26, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Dunghill_Leak
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Insurance
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vertafore is a Denver-based insurance technology company that develops software solutions for the full insurance distribution channel, including agencies, carriers, and MGAs. Its product portfolio covers agency management systems, content management, workflow automation, producer compliance/credentialing (Sircon), analytics, and AI-powered platforms. The company reports serving 98 of the top 100 agencies and 96 of the top 100 carriers in the United States.

Industry: Insurance Technology Software
Address: Denver, Colorado, United States
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1976

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Vertafore handles sensitive insurance data for a large portion of the US insurance industry including producer compliance records, agency management data, and analytics covering 200M+ annual rating transactions. A confirmed data publication by a ransomware group at this scale implicates regulated PII, financial, and industry-critical data at massive scale.

Dunghill_Leak claims to have compromised both Ropertech.com and Vertafore.com, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating exfiltrated data has been released. The leak post describes Vertafore's business operations and sensitive software infrastructure; the nature and volume of exfiltrated data are not explicitly detailed in the truncated post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Insurance company client data
Producer compliance and credentialing records
Agency management system data
Analytics and industry insights data
Workflow and content management data
Potentially policyholder PII

What the group claims

Vertafore is a Denver-based insurance technology company. It has developed various software for insurance companies, such as content management and workflow software, insurance knowledge base, data and analytics. It's insurance management software solutions allow participants in the insurance distribution channel to adapt to an evolving insurance industry by efficiently scaling their businesses through deeper access to information and insights.

Sources

Victim sitevertafore.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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