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Meral Manisa Ltd.

listed as meralmanisa · Claimed by Nova · listed 10 days ago

10d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 19, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Türkiye
Listed on leak site
Jul 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Meral Manisa Ltd. is a Turkish manufacturer established in 2005, specializing in cast filters for aluminum wheel and low-pressure-casting component production, as well as rim pallet sets. The company traces its automotive expertise to 1995 in Germany and operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers in its specialized field, serving clients across multiple continents.

Industry
Automotive Components Manufacturing - Aluminum Casting & Filtration
Address
Çalı Mahallesi Turuncu Cd. No:7/1, 16110 Nilüfer, Bursa, Turkey
Founded
2005

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business data including sales records and confidential documents from an established manufacturing company with international operations. Data volume (1.5 GB) and business sensitivity justify high classification, though no regulated personal data categories are explicitly confirmed.

Nova group claims to have exfiltrated 1.5 GB of sales data and confidential business documents from Meral Manisa. The group states it has samples of stolen data available to demonstrate proof upon contact.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Sales data
  • Confidential business documents
  • Internal records

What the group claims

MER-AL was established in Turkey in 2005, but our experience in the automotive industry started in Germany in 1995. MER-AL started its activities with the production of cast filters, which are specifically used to produce aluminum wheels and components produced in low-pressure-casting. In addition, a significant part of the production department consists of “rim pallets” and “rim pallet covers.” As a result, MER-AL is now one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cast filters and rim pallet sets and a well-known brand in this field in many countries - 1.5 GB of sales data and secret documents, Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 days ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 203 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 19, 2026meralmanisa listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 203 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, meralmanisa is reported in Türkiye, a country with 31 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means meralmanisa 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 nova'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.