Was Powersports Marketing hit by ransomware?

Powersports Marketing was listed by the ransomed ransomware operation (United States), 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 ransomed ransomware group?

ransomed 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 Powersports Marketing breach?

ransomed published data attributed to Powersports Marketing (~2.1 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Powersports Marketing

Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

2.1 TB

Data size

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 31, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 31, 2023
Data size: 2.1 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Powersports Marketing appears to be a marketing services company serving the powersports sector (motorcycles, ATVs, personal watercraft, and related recreational vehicles) in the United States. No public website content was available to confirm further operational details, scale, or headquarters location. The company is classified under Business Services.

Industry: Marketing Services for Powersports Industry

Attack summary

Severity: high — 2.1 TB of confirmed exfiltrated data from a full cloud environment is a significant breach of business data at scale. The group claims to hold everything employees ever downloaded or used, suggesting broad exposure of potentially sensitive business and client data. Data has been published (disclosed_status: data_published), elevating severity beyond medium.

The group 'ransomed' claims to have exfiltrated 2.1 TB of data from the company's cloud environment, stating they accessed everything employees ever downloaded or used on their systems. A directory tree file has been published as proof of the claimed data holdings.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee files and downloads
Cloud storage contents
Internal business documents
Directory/file tree listing

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

We are in hold of Everything any of their employes ever downloaded or used on their systems. whole cloud has been accessed. We are in hold of 2.1tb of data from their cloud.file tree:download(https://cdn.bunkr.ru/directory_tree-UvBawJCp.txt)

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. 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

August 31, 2023Powersports Marketing listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Data size: 2.1 TB

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Powersports Marketing is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means Powersports Marketing 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on ransomed'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.