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Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs

Claimed by Mogilevich · listed 2 years ago

7 GB
Data size
28m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 27, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Mogilevich
Status
Data leaked
Country
Ireland
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Feb 27, 2024
Data size
7 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is the Irish government agency responsible for foreign policy, diplomatic relations, passport services, consular assistance, visas, and international development cooperation (Irish Aid). It operates embassies and consulates worldwide and serves Irish citizens abroad.

Industry
Government / Foreign Affairs

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 7 GB of data from a national government foreign affairs ministry. Such breaches expose classified/sensitive diplomatic, intelligence, and state communications affecting national security and international relations.

The Mogilevich group claims to have breached Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and exfiltrated approximately 7 GB of documents. The group has published the data and is offering it for sale with a deadline of 3 March 2024.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • foreign affairs documents
  • diplomatic communications
  • government records

What the group claims

We successfully breached Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs Category: Foreign Affairs Data compromised:documents Size: 7GB Data is also for sale! Deadline: 3.3.24 If you are an employee of the company or someone who would like to buy the data, click on me

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Mogilevich

Mogilevich is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in February 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and operational behavior. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin, affiliations, or operational model remain unclear to major threat intelligence firms and law enforcement agencies. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology, government, business services, and transportation/logistics sectors, suggesting they may employ initial access vectors commonly effective against these industries, though their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented by major security researchers. With only nine known victims identified to date, Mogilevich has maintained a relatively low profile compared to established ransomware operations, with no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by CISA, FBI, or prominent security firms like Mandiant. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting, though their limited operational footprint and recent emergence make comprehensive threat profiling challenging based on available public intelligence. The group has been linked to 9 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 20, 2024; most recent post March 2, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 27, 2024Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs listed by Mogilevichon the group's public leak site
Data size
7 GB

Other recent disclosures by Mogilevich

Mogilevich has been linked to 9 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 Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs is reported in Ireland, a country with 43 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Mogilevich means Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs 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, NCSC-IE (Ireland), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Mogilevich'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.