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Hinduja Tech

listed as Hinduja Tech | BMW Group & Škoda Auto · Claimed by Global Secret Group · listed 3 days ago

2d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 26, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Global Secret Group
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jul 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hinduja Tech is an engineering services company specializing in sustainable mobility solutions for the automotive sector. They provide vehicle engineering, CAE, propulsion systems, vehicle electronics & software, and supply chain management services to leading global OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. The company operates globally with significant presence serving electric vehicle and commercial vehicle development.

Industry
Automotive Engineering Services & Product Development
Employees
2000-5000

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Exfiltration of 515 GB from a major automotive engineering firm serving BMW and Škoda represents compromise of significant intellectual property, proprietary vehicle designs, and confidential client data. Automotive engineering specifications and EV designs have high strategic value and regulatory sensitivity.

Global Secret Group claims to have exfiltrated 515 GB of data (212,785 files, 83,982 folders) from Hinduja Tech. The group states the victim as 'Hinduja Tech | BMW Group & Škoda Auto', suggesting potential access to automotive intellectual property and designs for major OEM clients.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Engineering designs and CAD files
  • Vehicle development documentation
  • Client project files
  • Supply chain data
  • Software and propulsion system specifications
  • OEM collaboration materials

What the group claims

Country: India | Website: hindujatech.com | Revenue: $381 Million | Industry: Engineering Services, Architecture, Engineering & Design, Product Engineering Solutions | Employees: 2000-5000 | Properties: 515 GB (212,785 Files, 83,982 Folders)

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Global Secret Group

Global Secret Group is a ransomware threat actor first observed in July 2026, with operations consistent with financially motivated cybercrime based on their targeting profile and victim patterns. The group has claimed or been attributed to 28 known victims across a relatively short operational window, suggesting an emerging or actively expanding operation. Given the limited public documentation available from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. What is known from available victim and targeting data indicates the group predominantly focuses on organizations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Cyprus, with a clear sectoral preference for Technology, Retail and E-Commerce, Energy and Utilities, Professional Services, and Financial Services — a targeting pattern broadly consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking high-value data and organizations with both the ability and incentive to pay ransoms. The cross-sector and multi-national targeting pattern may suggest opportunistic intrusion methodology rather than a narrowly scoped, nation-state-aligned operation, though this assessment remains preliminary pending further public disclosure by authoritative sources. As of the time of this writing, Global Secret Group's operational infrastructure, affiliation with any ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem, specific malware tooling, and current active status have not been formally attributed or publicly documented by major threat intelligence authorities, and this profile will require revision as additional intelligence becomes available. The group has been linked to 31 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 26, 2026; most recent post July 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 26, 2026Hinduja Tech | BMW Group & Škoda Auto listed by Global Secret Groupon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Global Secret Group

Global Secret Group has been linked to 31 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hinduja Tech | BMW Group & Škoda Auto is reported in India, a country with 242 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Global Secret Group means Hinduja Tech | BMW Group & Škoda Auto 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 Global Secret Group'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.