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State Register of Rights to Immovable Property (Bureau of Technical Inventory) — Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

listed as bdr.mvs.gov.ua · Claimed by Freecivilian · listed 4 years ago

43m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 31, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Freecivilian
Status
Data leaked
Country
Ukraine
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Dec 31, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

bdr.mvs.gov.ua is a subdomain of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVS/МВС) associated with the State Register of Rights to Immovable Property (BDR — Baza Danykh Rechestratsii). It operates under the Ukrainian government and maintains records related to real estate rights and technical inventory data for immovable property across Ukraine.

Industry
Government Property Registry

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Target is a Ukrainian government registry system containing PII of property owners at national scale; data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of regulated government data, likely including sensitive citizen PII linked to property records.

The Freecivilian group claims to have published data exfiltrated from this Ukrainian government property registry system; no ransom was stated and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating the data has been released rather than held for payment.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Real estate registry records
  • Property ownership data
  • Government administrative data
  • Potentially personal identifying information of property owners

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Freecivilian

Freecivilian is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in December 2022 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 14 documented victims. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely unknown, with limited public documentation from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as an independent entity or through a ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports, though their targeting pattern shows a notable focus on healthcare sector organizations. Given the limited public reporting on this group from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms, specific details about notable campaigns, record ransom demands, or high-profile incidents remain undocumented in mainstream threat intelligence channels. The current operational status of Freecivilian is unclear due to the sparse public information available about this relatively low-profile ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 31, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 31, 2022bdr.mvs.gov.ua listed by Freecivilianon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Freecivilian

Freecivilian has been linked to 14 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Freecivilian 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, bdr.mvs.gov.ua is reported in Ukraine.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Freecivilian means bdr.mvs.gov.ua 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 Freecivilian'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.