Was municipality of Torre del Greco hit by ransomware?

municipality of Torre del Greco was listed by the Royal ransomware operation (Italy), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Royal ransomware group?

Royal is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the municipality of Torre del Greco breach?

Royal published data attributed to municipality of Torre del Greco. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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municipality of Torre del Greco

Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago

42m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 30, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Royal
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Jan 30, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Municipality of Torre del Greco (Comune di Torre del Greco) is a local government authority serving a city of approximately 85,000 residents in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy. It provides municipal public services and administration for its population. The city is historically notable as a major producer of coral jewellery and cameo brooches since the 17th century.

Industry: Local Government Administration
Address: Torre del Greco, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a local government entity serving ~85,000 residents; data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of data, which almost certainly includes citizen PII and sensitive administrative records, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

The Royal ransomware group claims an attack on the Municipality of Torre del Greco, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. The leak post does not specify the volume of data exfiltrated or the precise nature of the stolen records.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Municipal government records
Resident/citizen data (PII likely)
Administrative documents

What the group claims

Torre del Greco (Italian pronunciation: Neapolitan: Torre d' 'o Grieco; "Greek man's Tower") is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, with a population of c. 85,000 as of 2016. The locals are sometimes called Corallini because of the once plentiful coral in the nearby sea, and because the city has been a major producer of coral jewellery and cameo brooches since the seventeenth century.

Sources

Victim sitecomune.torredelgreco.na.it

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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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

January 30, 2023municipality of Torre del Greco listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Royal

Royal has been linked to 211 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, municipality of Torre del Greco is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Royal means municipality of Torre del Greco 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Royal'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.