Was sandipuniversity.edu.in hit by ransomware?

sandipuniversity.edu.in was listed by the Darkvault ransomware operation (India), 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 Darkvault ransomware group?

Darkvault 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 sandipuniversity.edu.in breach?

Darkvault published data attributed to sandipuniversity.edu.in. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Sandip University

listed as sandipuniversity.edu.in · Claimed by Darkvault · listed 2 years ago

26m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 26, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Darkvault
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Listed on leak site: Apr 26, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sandip University is a UGC-approved private university located in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, spanning 250+ acres. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs across engineering, computer sciences, commerce, pharmaceutical sciences, law, science, and design disciplines, with 10,000+ alumni and claims of 100% placement assistance.

Industry: Higher Education
Address: Nashik, Maharashtra, India

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Educational institution with potential access to student PII and institutional data; however, no specific data categories, proof files, or operational disruption are documented in the leak post. Classification reflects typical university data exposure risk without confirmed exfiltration evidence.

Darkvault claims to have compromised Sandip University. The specific attack vector (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and data scope are not detailed in the provided leak post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Faculty information
Administrative data
Institutional databases

What the group claims

Sandip University is a thriving hub of 21st century higher education.It is a UGC-approved University in India, located in Nashik, Maharashtra. The University is set in a picturesque lush green Wi-Fi enabled campus spanning across 250+ acres and is home to cutting-edge infrastructure for a holistic student experience.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Darkvault

Darkvault is an emerging ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest a financially motivated cybercriminal organization rather than state-sponsored activity. Given the limited public documentation from established security research organizations, specific details regarding Darkvault's attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and potential data exfiltration practices have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported by major threat intelligence providers such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant. The group has reportedly compromised approximately 55 victims across diverse geographic regions, with particular concentration in India, the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and South Korea, while demonstrating sector preferences for technology companies, business services, healthcare organizations, transportation and logistics firms, and financial institutions. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited coverage in established threat intelligence channels, comprehensive details regarding notable high-profile campaigns, ransom demands, or specific law enforcement actions remain undocumented in publicly available security research. Current intelligence suggests the group maintains active operations as of late 2024, though the limited public reporting on Darkvault indicates either highly effective operational security or insufficient analysis by major cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 55 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 11, 2024; most recent post January 6, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: DARK VAULT.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 26, 2024sandipuniversity.edu.in listed by Darkvaulton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Darkvault

Darkvault has been linked to 55 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, sandipuniversity.edu.in is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Darkvault means sandipuniversity.edu.in 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, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Darkvault'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.