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

October 6, 2023(SALE) District Of Columbia Elections 600k lines VOTERS DATA listed by Ransomedvcon the group's public leak site

Records: 600K lines

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 509 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, (SALE) District Of Columbia Elections 600k lines VOTERS DATA is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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District of Columbia Board of Elections

listed as (SALE) District Of Columbia Elections 600k lines VOTERS DATA · Claimed by Ransomedvc · listed 3 years ago

600K lines

Records

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 6, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Ransomedvc
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Oct 6, 2023
Records: 600K lines

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) is the independent agency of the District of Columbia government responsible for administering elections, maintaining voter registration rolls, and overseeing campaign finance compliance. It serves all registered voters in Washington, D.C. and operates under DC Code authority.

Industry: Government Electoral Administration
Address: 441 4th Street NW, Suite 250 North, Washington, DC 20001
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1968

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and public sale of 600,000+ voter PII records from a government electoral authority constitutes a critical disclosure: it involves regulated government PII at scale, threatens democratic infrastructure integrity, and the data is actively being sold with a sample already published.

RansomedVC claims to have exfiltrated more than 600,000 lines of Washington D.C. voter data from the DC Board of Elections, publishing a sample paste as proof of the breach with no ransom demand stated and the data offered for sale.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Voter registration records
Full voter names
Residential addresses
Voter identification numbers
Party affiliation data
Voting history records

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

We have successfully breached the District of Columbia Board Of Elections and have gotten more than 600k lines of USA Voters: see a small sample here: https://paste.ec/raw/UhDgH8I8#ub86MOR2-yKYUVcuZRbXXW5hQzBXYIHWTmvntzHSEE1 Contact us at https://t.me/RansomedSupport

Sources

Victim sitedcboe.org

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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