Disclosure context

About Royal

Royal is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with over 200 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model, though their exact country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Royal primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns and exploitation of remote desktop protocols, subsequently deploying custom ransomware that encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data for double extortion tactics. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and public services, with notable attacks against educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and government entities primarily in the United States, though they have also significantly impacted organizations across Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Their encryption methodology involves custom-built malware that systematically encrypts files while maintaining persistence on compromised networks. As of recent reporting from federal agencies including CISA and FBI advisories, Royal remains an active threat with ongoing campaigns targeting organizations across their preferred sectors, particularly focusing on entities with limited cybersecurity resources that may be more likely to pay ransom demands. The group has been linked to 211 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 4, 2023Midwest Truck listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Automotive sector, which has 11 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Midwest Truck 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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Midwest Truck and Auto Parts, Inc.

listed as Midwest Truck · Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago

37m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 4, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Royal
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Automotive
Listed on leak site: May 4, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Midwest Truck and Auto Parts, Inc. sources and supplies components to the heavy duty, light duty, and high-performance aftermarkets worldwide. The company has merged operations with S&S Truck Parts LLC and together offers over 30,000 quality parts across brands including Motive Gear, TEN Factory, Richmond Gear, and Powertrax. Their customers include warehouse distributors, dealerships, and international buyers.

Industry: Aftermarket Truck & Automotive Parts Distribution
Address: 600 W. Irving Park Road, Schaumburg, IL 60193

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group explicitly claims exfiltration of highly regulated PII at scale — including SSNs, passports, and driver's licenses of employees and clients — alongside sensitive financial and contractual business records, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

The Royal ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated corporate data from Midwest Truck and Auto Parts, including personal information (driver's licenses, addresses, phone numbers, passports, SSNs) and business records (financial documents, bank statements, incident reports, contracts), and states the data will be published to their blog.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Driver's licenses
Home addresses
Phone numbers
Passports
Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Financial documents
Bank statements
Incident reports
Contracts

What the group claims

Midwest Truck and Auto Parts, Inc. sources and supplies various components to the heavy duty, light duty, and hi-performance aftermarkets worldwide. Someone thinks that if a business is small, that means that it needs nothing to do with clients and employees data to secure them. Same happened to Midwest Truck. Lack of cyber protection has led to upcoming uploading their corporate data with all the personal (drivers licenses, addresses, phones, passports, SSNs) and business (financial docs, bank statements, incident, contract) information to our blog. Stay in touch.

Sources

Victim sitemidwesttruck.com
Leak posthttp://royal4ezp7xrbakkus3oofjw6gszrohpodmdnfbe5e4w3og5sm7vb3qd.onion/lU7Ac6tuCWkzp7uyA9UeQndVG5ZvBonJ

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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