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Acer Inc.

listed as Acer.com Leaked Data 100% Fresh · Claimed by Darkleakmarket · listed 5 years ago

58m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 9, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Darkleakmarket
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Sep 9, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational technology corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, laptops, tablets, monitors, and related electronics and peripherals. The company operates globally across consumer and enterprise markets, with a significant presence in North America, Europe, and Asia. Acer is one of the world's largest PC vendors by unit sales.

Industry
Consumer Electronics & Personal Computing
Employees
7001-10000
Founded
1976

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is listed as 'disclosed/published' with a claim of fresh exfiltrated data from a major global technology company. While the specific data types are unconfirmed due to no leak post content, a published data release from a Fortune-scale tech firm affecting potentially millions of customers warrants a high severity rating. Without confirmed regulated PII or financial/medical records at scale, critical is not warranted.

The group Darkleakmarket claims to have obtained and published data described as '100% Fresh' from Acer's domain (acer.com), indicating exfiltration and full data publication; no ransom demand was stated and no encryption claim was made.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer or employee records (type unspecified)
  • Leaked database contents

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Darkleakmarket

Darkleakmarket is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, primarily targeting organizations in the United States across finance, healthcare, technology, and energy sectors. The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against 39 known victims, though specific details about their country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or whether they employ double extortion tactics involving data theft prior to encryption. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Darkleakmarket have been publicly documented by major security agencies or researchers. The current operational status of this group remains unclear due to the limited public reporting and intelligence available about their activities since their initial emergence. The group has been linked to 39 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post May 25, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 9, 2021Acer.com Leaked Data 100% Fresh listed by Darkleakmarketon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Darkleakmarket

Darkleakmarket has been linked to 39 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Acer.com Leaked Data 100% Fresh is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Darkleakmarket means Acer.com Leaked Data 100% Fresh 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Darkleakmarket'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.