Ransomware victim disclosure

Heng Chang Machinery Co., Ltd

listed as aqhch.com.cn · Claimed by lockbit3 · listed 1 year ago

13m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 16, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: lockbit3
Status: Data leaked
Country: China
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Apr 16, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Heng Chang Machinery Co., Ltd (HCH) is a professional manufacturer of complete production lines for disposable hygiene products, founded in 1988. The company operates in China and positions itself as a world-class provider in this specialized manufacturing sector.

Industry: Machinery Manufacturing — Disposable Hygiene Products Equipment
Founded: 1988

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by LockBit3 (confirmed disclosed status), but the excerpt provides no inventory of sensitive data types, scale, or proof files. Without evidence of regulated/sensitive data at scale, severity is medium rather than high.

LockBit3 claims to have compromised HCH and published data. The specific data exfiltrated and operational impact are not detailed in the available excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

Heng Chang Machinery Co., Ltd (HCH), founded in 1988, is a leading world-class professional manufacturer of complete production lines for disposable hygiene products.

Sources

Victim siteaqhch.com.cn
Leak posthttp://lockbit3g3ohd3katajf6zaehxz4h4cnhmz5t735zpltywhwpc6oy3id.onion/post/rxIw0r7etVsgsc8H6800162b2e183

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 16, 2025aqhch.com.cn listed by lockbit3on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, aqhch.com.cn is reported in China, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.