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vit.ac.in

Claimed by AuditTeam · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 22, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AuditTeam
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Sep 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university in India founded in 1984, granted university status in 2001. It operates multiple campuses across India with a strong focus on engineering and technology education, achieving NAAC A++ accreditation and solid NIRF/QS rankings. The university admits undergraduates primarily through VITEEE and reports strong placement outcomes (10,000+ offers annually).

Industry
Higher Education & Engineering
Address
Vellore (main campus); additional campuses in Chennai, Andhra Pradesh, and Bhopal, India
Founded
1984

Attack summary

Severity: high — Educational institution with multi-campus operation serving thousands of students; confirmed exfiltration and public disclosure of institutional data affecting minors and vulnerable populations (undergraduates); data likely includes PII at institutional scale.

AuditTeam claims to have acquired and exfiltrated data from VIT. The group has published sample proof artifacts and states that the complete acquired data archive is now public after the remediation window expired.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Student records
  • Faculty/staff data
  • Academic records
  • Administrative databases
  • Institutional systems data

What the group claims

VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology, official site vit.ac.in) is a well-known private university in India: founded in 1984 and granted university status in 2001, with its main campus in Vellore and additional campuses in Chennai, AP, and Bhopal; it is especially strong in engineering and technology (NAAC A++, solid NIRF/QS standing), admits most undergrads via VITEEE, and posts strong placements (often 10,000+ offers in recent years, with top packages around 1 crore INR).

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[[ DATA EXPOSURE LOGS ]](http://6tdqqaxftvradka5d2frzgwixis7fmro7rfh4ettzcx7jfapkebe6jad.onion/)
VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology, official site vit.ac.in) is a well-known private university in India: founded in 1984 and granted university status in 2001, with its main campus in Vellore and additional campuses in Chennai, AP, and Bhopal; it is especially strong in engineering and technology (NAAC A++, solid NIRF/QS standing), admits most undergrads via VITEEE, and posts strong placements (often 10,000+ offers in recent years, with top packages around 1 crore INR).
### [ EVIDENCE OF ACQUISITION (SAMPLE) ]
Sample data artifacts have been published to validate our audit findings. Copy the links below to verify.
Archive Decryption Key: 
### [ PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY ARCHIVE ]
The remediation window has expired. The complete acquired data archive is now public.
Archive Decryption Key:

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About AuditTeam

AuditTeam is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in April 2026 and appears to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, though their targeting of victims primarily across China, Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand suggests possible regional focus or language capabilities in Asian markets. With only five documented victims to date, AuditTeam appears to operate as a smaller-scale ransomware operation, showing particular interest in manufacturing and technology sectors alongside unspecified target types. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited scale of operations, there are no publicly documented major campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant law enforcement actions against them by agencies such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms. The group's current operational status remains unknown given the sparse public intelligence available, and their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been comprehensively documented by reputable security researchers as of available reporting. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2026; most recent post September 22, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: audit team.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 22, 2026vit.ac.in listed by AuditTeam on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by AuditTeam

AuditTeam has been linked to 48 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 Education sector, which has 1,087 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, vit.ac.in is reported in India, a country with 243 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AuditTeam means vit.ac.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 AuditTeam'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.