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Chamber of Deputies of Romania (Camera Deputaților din România)

Claimed by Knight · listed 2 years ago

250.000 MB
Data size
29m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 29, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Knight
Status
Data leaked
Country
Romania
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Jan 29, 2024
Data size
250.000 MB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Chamber of Deputies of Romania (Camera Deputaților din România) is the lower house of the Romanian Parliament, located in Bucharest. It is the primary legislative body responsible for drafting and voting on laws affecting the nation.

Industry
Government - Legislative
Address
Bucharest, Romania
Founded
1990

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 250 GB of government data including personal identification, financial records, and sensitive institutional information from a national legislative body. Exposure of deputies' PII and salary data at government scale constitutes critical compromise of state security and privacy.

Knight claims to have exfiltrated approximately 250 GB of documents, contracts, and institutional records from the Chamber of Deputies. The group alleges possession of sensitive materials including deputies' national IDs, salary information, spending records, advertising contracts, and employee office details, with partial data published as proof.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • National ID documents
  • Salary records
  • Spending records
  • Advertising contracts
  • Employee office information
  • Institutional documents
  • Government contracts

The group's post references roughly 7 proof images proof files.

What the group claims

 We have obtained more than  size of  250,000 MB   documents and contracts and more information from Chamber of Deputies of Romania  Let's publish a small part of the data first. https://gofile.io/d/cTyk9IFor media and TV important documents about  Deputes ( National ID , salary ,  spending, adverting contracts , employees offices  Deputes  and more) https://satoshidisk.com/pay/CKXGq2premier.png 1.64 MBu.png 774.6 KB1.png 89.66 KBresponder.png 80.1 KBresponder2.png 147.84 KB4.png 526.58 KB3.png 409.77 KB5.png 55.7 KB

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 29, 2024Chamber of Deputies of Romania (Camera Deputaților din România) listed by Knighton the group's public leak site
Data size
250.000 MB

Other recent disclosures by Knight

Knight has been linked to 48 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, Chamber of Deputies of Romania (Camera Deputaților din România) is reported in Romania, a country with 20 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Knight means Chamber of Deputies of Romania (Camera Deputaților din România) 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Knight'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.