Was City government office in Van hit by ransomware?

City government office in Van was listed by the skira ransomware operation (Turkey), 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 skira ransomware group?

skira 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 City government office in Van breach?

skira published data attributed to City government office in Van. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Van Metropolitan Municipality

listed as City government office in Van · Claimed by Skira · listed 1 year ago

15m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 6, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Skira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Turkey
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Mar 6, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Van Metropolitan Municipality is the administrative body responsible for local governance in Van, Turkey. It manages municipal services including urban planning, public facilities maintenance, and local administrative operations essential to the city's infrastructure and daily operations.

Industry: Public Administration & Local Government
Address: Van, Turkey

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Public sector entity with potential access to citizen data and municipal records; however, no proof files are advertised, no exfiltration is explicitly confirmed, and no operational disruption is documented. Classification reflects the sensitivity of government data and claimed disclosure status, tempered by lack of evidence.

The skira group claims to have compromised the Van city government office (van.bel.tr). No specific details about encryption, exfiltration method, or data scope are provided in the available post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Municipal administrative records
City governance databases
Public service records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

City Government Office in Van, Turkey, also known as van.bel.tr, is an administrative body responsible for local governance in the city of Van. It is involved in a range of municipal tasks such as urban planning, delivering local services, maintaining public facilities, and more. The office is a crucial component of the city’s infrastructure, supporting the growth, sustainability, and daily operations of Van.

Sources

Victim sitevan.bel.tr
Leak posthttp://mtgc3qvyedjnfu7cen2zsupdppi5ys5g2hm6xwujvoepw25p4dy6huid.onion/news/van.bel.tr.html

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About skira

Skira is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in March 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations primarily in the United States, India, Japan, and Turkey. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, and there is insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Based on their targeting pattern across diverse geographic regions and sectors including financial services, technology, manufacturing, and construction, the group appears to employ opportunistic attack vectors, though specific technical methodologies, encryption techniques, and data extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major security researchers or government agencies. With only eight documented victims since their March 2025 emergence, Skira has not yet conducted any widely publicized high-profile campaigns or attracted significant law enforcement attention. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence remains limited due to their recent operational timeline. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 6, 2025; most recent post November 18, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 6, 2025City government office in Van listed by skiraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by skira

skira has been linked to 8 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full skira dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, City government office in Van is reported in Turkey, a country with 77 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by skira means City government office in Van 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on skira'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.