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Vietnam Electricity (EVN) / EVNHANOI

Claimed by Emperador · listed 21 hours ago

300GB+
Data size
13.36 million customer rows, 6.99 million subscriptions, 2.26 million account records records
open to negotiation
Sale price
Today
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 23, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Emperador
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
Vietnam
Sector
Energy / Utilities
Listed on leak site
Aug 23, 2026
Data size
300GB+
Records
13.36 million customer rows, 6.99 million subscriptions, 2.26 million account records
Sale price
open to negotiation

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vietnam Electricity (EVN), legally Tập đoàn Điện lực Việt Nam, is Vietnam's largest power company and sole national electric utility, fully owned by the Vietnamese government. EVN operates as a vertically integrated monopoly responsible for nationwide generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity, managing all major power plants and regional subsidiaries including EVNHANOI. The company is undergoing grid digitalization and leading Vietnam's transition from coal dependency toward renewable energy integration.

Industry
Energy / Utilities
Founded
1994

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of massive scale PII (13+ million customer records of a national utility), combined with confirmed encryption of critical infrastructure systems. National electric utility compromise poses direct threat to operational continuity and serves critical infrastructure function for the nation.

The grupo emperador claims to have exfiltrated over 300GB of customer and operational data, including 13.36 million customer records, 6.99 million subscriptions, and 2.26 million account records. The post states that critical systems have been encrypted and all servers, databases, emails, and admin credentials have been accessed.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer details (13.36 million records)
  • Subscription records (6.99 million)
  • Account records (2.26 million)
  • Server data
  • Databases
  • Email communications
  • Admin credentials

What the group claims

Vietnam Electricity (EVN), legally known as Tập đoàn Điện lực Việt Nam, is the largest power company and the sole national electric utility in Vietnam. Fully owned and controlled by the Vietnamese government since its inception in 1994, EVN operates as a vertically integrated monopoly responsible for the nationwide generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity, as well as international power exchanges.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[ Vietnam Electricity (EVN), legally known as Tập đoàn Điện lực Việt Nam, is the largest power company and the sole national electric utility in Vietnam. Fully owned and controlled by the Vietnamese government since its inception in 1994, EVN operates as a vertically integrated monopoly responsible for the nationwide generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity, as well as international power exchanges. The group oversees all major power plants and regional distribution subsidiaries, including EVNHANOI. Serving as a crucial pillar for Vietnam's macroeconomic stability and industrial expansion, EVN is currently undertaking extensive grid digitalization and spearheading the national transition from coal dependency toward clean and renewable energy integration. The data content exceeds 300GB, comprising 13.36 million rows of customer details, 6.99 million subscriptions, 2.26 million account records, and other miscellaneous data.The price is open to negotiation. Session:054e5b6edf03e8ba012626b5dcd83a7dd47a046760bcd9b9b32d02a039d24d9608 Tox:852E34CBEBA2D40FD21BAC9F9E588B5194DBA9F31CACF9ECE316403120BE18765D22A8A453C4 ](http://emprdr4p7iwlhpky33tswt3k2qdeljyjcdpoysabudmmrz4z3…

Data the group says was taken

  • customer details
  • subscriptions
  • account records

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Vietnam Electricity (EVN) / EVNHANOI

Sources

Source

Indexed 21 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About emperador

Emperador is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, though its limited operational history makes comprehensive attribution difficult at this time. Based on available data, the group has recorded at least one confirmed victim, with targeting concentrated in the Philippines and a demonstrated focus on the Government and Defense sector, suggesting either opportunistic targeting or a deliberate interest in sensitive public-sector data. Specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and tooling have not been publicly documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources as of this profile's compilation, and no affiliation with known ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems or established threat actor clusters has been formally established. No notable high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions have been publicly attributed to this group, which is consistent with its nascent operational timeline and minimal victim count. Given its very recent emergence and limited observed activity, Emperador should be considered an emerging and uncharacterized threat requiring continued monitoring, particularly by organizations operating within Philippine government and defense environments. The group has been linked to 9 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 12, 2026; most recent post August 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 23, 2026Vietnam Electricity (EVN) / EVNHANOI listed by emperadoron the group's public leak site
Data size
300GB+
Records
13.36 million customer rows, 6.99 million subscriptions, 2.26 million account records

Other recent disclosures by emperador

emperador has been linked to 9 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full emperador dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy / Utilities sector. Geographically, Vietnam Electricity (EVN) / EVNHANOI is reported in Vietnam, a country with 14 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by emperador means Vietnam Electricity (EVN) / EVNHANOI appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 emperador'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.