Was quiztarget.com hit by ransomware?

quiztarget.com was listed by the funksec 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 funksec ransomware group?

funksec 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 quiztarget.com breach?

funksec published data attributed to quiztarget.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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quiztarget.com

Claimed by Funksec · listed 2 years ago

19m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 11, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Funksec
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Dec 11, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

QuizTarget is a SaaS platform that enables businesses and marketers to create interactive quizzes, surveys, and polls for lead generation and audience engagement. The platform offers customizable templates, email marketing integration, analytics, and A/B testing features. It serves a diverse customer base across e-commerce, coaching, real estate, and digital marketing, with 10,000+ customers reported worldwide.

Industry: SaaS / Lead Generation & Marketing Automation

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status indicates confirmed exfiltration, but the leak post contains only generic platform description with no proof files cited, no specific sensitive data types detailed, and no ransom demand. The affected data likely includes customer PII and business information at moderate scale, but lack of concrete proof details and absence of regulated data confirmation prevents higher classification.

The funksec group claims to have accessed QuizTarget systems and published data. The group's post provides an AI-generated description of the platform but includes no specific details about the scope of exfiltration, data types compromised, or operational impact.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

customer account data
quiz/survey responses
email addresses
user preferences
business data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

QuizTarget.com is a platform designed to help businesses and marketers create engaging quizzes for lead generation and audience interaction. It offers customizable quiz templates and tools to capture leads, integrate with email marketing services, and analyze user responses. The platform aims to boost engagement by providing interactive content that can be shared across various digital channels.

Sources

Victim sitequiztarget.com
Leak posthttp://7ixfdvqb4eaju5lzj4gg76kwlrxg4ugqpuog5oqkkmgfyn33h527oyyd.onion/ransom2.html

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About funksec

Funksec is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in December 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim acquisition approach. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though they appear to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model based on available intelligence. With 172 documented victims across multiple countries, Funksec has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, primarily focusing on the United States, India, Brazil, Spain, and Israel, with particular emphasis on technology companies, government entities, educational institutions, and business services organizations. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence firms, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests an established operational capability. Given the group's recent discovery in December 2024, there have been no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have drawn significant public attention from law enforcement or cybersecurity organizations. Funksec remains active as of early 2025, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 172 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 4, 2024; most recent post March 18, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 11, 2024quiztarget.com listed by funksecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by funksec

funksec has been linked to 172 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, quiztarget.com is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by funksec means quiztarget.com 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 funksec'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.