Was phms.com.au hit by ransomware?

phms.com.au was listed by the Ransomedvc ransomware operation (Australia), 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 Ransomedvc ransomware group?

Ransomedvc 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 phms.com.au breach?

Ransomedvc published data attributed to phms.com.au. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Platinum Hail Management Solutions

listed as phms.com.au · Claimed by Ransomedvc · listed 3 years ago

$10.000

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 3, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomedvc
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Sep 3, 2023
Ransom demanded: $10.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Platinum Hail Management Solutions (PHMS) is an independent, Australian-owned company headquartered in south-east Queensland that specialises in paintless dent repair (PDR) and end-to-end hail damage repair services for insurance companies across Australia. The company operates dedicated Emergency Hail Catastrophe Repair Centres during summer hail months and a mobile service in Brisbane and the Gold Coast during the off-season. PHMS is a contracted specialist for insurers including RACQ and manages the full hail repair process from assessment to completion.

Industry: Automotive Hail Damage Repair & Insurance Services
Address: South East Queensland, Australia

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims confirmed database exfiltration with root-level access and MySQL dump, likely containing customer PII, insurance company data, and booking records. Data is stated as published, elevating beyond medium despite the relatively small ransom demand.

RansomedVC claims to have gained root access to phms.com.au's systems and exfiltrated the company's database, including MySQL access, demanding a ransom of $10,000. The group states the database has been exported, indicating data exfiltration has occurred.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

MySQL database contents
Customer records
Insurer portal data
Booking/calendar data

What the group claims

We have hacked and exported the database of phms.com.au. We have gathered root access and access to their mysqlWe require a ransom of $10,000

Sources

Victim sitephms.com.au

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the ransomware ecosystem with a documented victim count of 68 organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, specific details about their country of origin and operational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent group rather than a established RaaS operation. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting critical infrastructure sectors, particularly focusing on Food & Agriculture and Healthcare organizations across a geographically diverse range of countries including Bulgaria, Brazil, Japan, Australia, and Russia, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of automated scanning tools to identify vulnerable systems. While comprehensive details about their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, their targeting of healthcare and food sector organizations suggests they may leverage the critical nature of these services to pressure victims into payment. The group's notable campaign activity appears concentrated in their operational period since mid-2023, though no major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or other authoritative sources. Ransomedvc appears to remain active as of the latest available intelligence, though their relatively recent emergence means their long-term operational patterns and potential for rebranding or law enforcement disruption remain to be observed. 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

September 3, 2023phms.com.au listed by Ransomedvcon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $10.000

Other recent disclosures by Ransomedvc

Ransomedvc has been linked to 68 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, phms.com.au is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomedvc means phms.com.au 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomedvc'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.