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IG Petrochemicals Limited

listed as IGPL · Claimed by HYFLOCK · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
HYFLOCK
Status
Data leaked
Country
Nigeria
Sector
Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

IG Petrochemicals Limited (IGPL) is India's largest single-site producer of Phthalic Anhydride (PA), operating five integrated production plants at its Taloja complex in Maharashtra with 275,110 MTPA installed capacity. Publicly traded on NSE and BSE, the company commands approximately 50% of India's domestic PA market and supplies critical chemical intermediates to industries including paints, coatings, plastics, PVC, and construction chemicals, with annual revenue of approximately USD 247 million (INR 20.7 billion).

Industry
Petrochemicals & Specialty Chemicals Manufacturing
Address
Taloja, Maharashtra, India
Founded
1988

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed_status: data_published) against a critical infrastructure supplier in the chemical sector, but the actual data categories, sensitivity classification, and scale of exfiltration are not detailed in the available leak post. The countdown timer and staged disclosure suggest operational planning, but without confirmation of regulated data (PII, financial records, trade secrets) the severity cannot be elevated to 'high' or 'critical'.

HYFLOCK claims to have exfiltrated data from IGPL but has not publicly disclosed the nature or scope of the data compromised. The group has published a countdown timer to a 'data reveal' but the actual data breach details, file inventory, and victim notification status remain unconfirmed in the available leak post excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

Company Profile & Core Business • Overview: Established in 1988 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, IGPL operates its core manufacturing facility within the Taloja chemical industrial corridor in Maharashtra. The company is a publicly traded, international petrochemical products manufacturer listed on both the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). • Core Products: The company primarily specializes in the production of Phthalic Anhydride (PAN). Leveraging economies of scale, it also recovers valuable by-products such as Maleic Anhydride and Benzoic Acid, and further extends its downstream value chain to manufacture plasticizers like Di-Ethyl Phthalate (DEP). Industry Influence • Market Dominance: IGPL stands as India's largest single-site Phthalic Anhydride (PAN) producer, commanding a massive domestic market share of approximately 50%. Its Taloja complex is also recognized as one of the largest single-location PAN manufacturing facilities globally, boasting an annual production capacity of 270,000 Metric Tonnes Per Annum (MTPA). • Critical Supply Chain Link: Phthalic Anhydride serves as an indispensable chemical intermediate in the industrial value chain. IGPL's products are widely supplied to leading global and domestic manufacturers across dozens of backbone industries, including paints, coatings, plastics, flexible PVC, unsaturated polyester resins (UPR), automotive components, construction chemicals, and fragrances. Beyond dominating the Indian market, the company exports to international markets, exerting a strong global supply chain presence. Financial Performance & Annual Revenue According to the latest financial disclosures: • Annual Revenue: IGPL's annual total revenue consistently ranges between INR 20.7 billion and INR 22.3 billion (approximately USD 210 million to USD 270 million). • Recent Revenue Trends: As of 2026, its trailing twelve months (TTM) rolling total revenue sits at approximately INR 20.73 billion (around USD 247 million). The company's top-line performance exhibits cyclical patterns, highly influenced by fluctuations in international chemical raw material prices (specifically Orthoxylene) and global supply chain demand. • Profitability: The company has maintained a net profit margin of around 3.94% over the past 12 months, with its current market capitalization valued between INR 17.4 billion and INR 17.6 billion.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
## // DATA REVEAL COUNTDOWN //
1d : 18h : 27m : 49s
Company Profile & Core Business • Overview: Established in 1988 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, IGPL operates its core manufacturing facility within the Taloja chemical industrial corridor in Maharashtra. The company is a publicly traded, international petrochemical products manufacturer listed on both the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). • Core Products: The company primarily specializes in the production of Phthalic Anhydride (PAN). Leveraging economies of scale, it also recovers valuable by-products such as Maleic Anhydride and Benzoic Acid, and further extends its downstream value chain to manufacture plasticizers like Di-Ethyl Phthalate (DEP). Industry Influence • Market Dominance: IGPL stands as India's largest single-site Phthalic Anhydride (PAN) producer, commanding a massive domestic market share of approximately 50%. Its Taloja complex is also recognized as one of the largest single-location PAN manufacturing facilities globally, boasting an annual production capacity of 270,000 Metric Tonnes Per Annum (MTPA). • Critical Supply Chain Link: Phthalic Anhydride serves as an ind…

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About HYFLOCK

HYFLOCK is a ransomware group first observed in October 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, representing an emerging threat actor with a limited but notable operational footprint of eight confirmed victims across multiple continents. The group's geographic targeting pattern spans Brazil, Canada, India, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, suggesting a deliberate focus on economically significant nations across South America, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East rather than a regionally constrained operational posture. HYFLOCK has demonstrated a cross-sector targeting approach, with confirmed victims in Technology, Financial Services, and Government and Defense verticals, indicating opportunistic selection rather than strict industry specialization. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, the FBI, or Mandiant at the time of this profile, definitive attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, specific tooling, or initial access vectors has not been publicly established. The breadth of targeted countries across multiple regions with no clear geographic concentration, combined with the inclusion of government and defense entities alongside private sector victims, warrants close monitoring as the group's tactics, techniques, and procedures become better documented through continued incident response activity. HYFLOCK should be considered an active and emerging threat, and organizations in the identified target sectors and geographies are advised to maintain heightened defensive posture pending further intelligence development. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2026IGPL listed by HYFLOCK on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by HYFLOCK

HYFLOCK has been linked to 8 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 Energy & Utilities sector, which has 170 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, IGPL is reported in Nigeria, a country with 6 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by HYFLOCK means IGPL 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 HYFLOCK'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.