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Mihuru

Claimed by Xpl0Itrs · listed 3 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 19, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Aug 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mihuru is a fintech company offering credit and point-of-sale financing solutions for travel bookings, enabling customers to purchase flights, hotels, and holiday packages with low upfront costs and flexible monthly installment plans.

Industry
Financial Services & Travel Fintech

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of highly sensitive regulated data at significant scale: 204,497 records including PII (names, DOB, email, phone), identity documents (passport/ID scans), financial data (PANs, bank statements, credit reports), and loan/KYC documentation. This constitutes regulated personal and financial information affecting customers, loan applicants, and business partners.

xpl0itrs claims to have exfiltrated 549.7MB of data comprising 204,497 records across 714 JSON files and 111 databases. The stolen dataset includes personal identity documents, financial records, credit reports, loan applications, and travel booking information.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • KYC documents
  • Passport and ID scans
  • PAN (Primary Account Numbers)
  • Names and dates of birth
  • Bank statement passwords
  • Full credit bureau reports
  • Loan agreements and assessments
  • Travel itineraries and booking details
  • Business loan applicant files
  • Student financing applications
  • Partner contact information
  • Email addresses (25,150 unique)
  • Phone numbers (25,101)
  • IFSC bank codes (111)

What the group claims

Consumer travel financing

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Mihuru provides credit and point-of-sale financing solutions for travel bookings, allowing users to book flights, hotels, and holiday packages with low upfront costs and monthly installments. We have 549.7MB, 714 JSON files, 111 bases, and a total of 204,497 records. Stolen data consists of: KYC / travel docs, Passport/ID scans, PANs, names, DOBs; Bank-statement passwords, full credit-bureau reports; Signed agreements, applicant PII; Booked itineraries, amounts, statuses; Business-loan applicant dossiers; Credit-derived marketing list; Partner contacts, referral/coupon programs; Student financing applications; Product templates, scraped news. Details are: 25,150 unique email addresses, 25,101 phone numbers, 8,450 PAN numbers, 111 IFSC bank codes
KYC / travel documents, loan assessments, loan documents, approved travel cases, credit ops, partner ops, edtech lending

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Mihuru

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About xpl0itrs

xpl0itrs is a nascent ransomware group first observed in August 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting profile, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and low victim count. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin or affiliation with established threat actor ecosystems has been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time, and it remains unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed actor. Based on available victim telemetry, xpl0itrs has targeted organizations across Australia, Austria, and the United States, with a focus on the Technology and Retail and E-Commerce sectors, though the specific initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, and extortion tactics employed by the group have not yet been publicly detailed in open-source intelligence reporting. To date, the group has been linked to four known victims, and no high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly disclosed. As of the time of this writing, xpl0itrs appears to be an active but early-stage threat actor warranting monitoring as it may expand its targeting scope and operational tempo as it matures. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 15, 2026; most recent post August 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 19, 2026Mihuru listed by xpl0itrson the group's public leak site

If your organisation is affected

A listing by xpl0itrs means Mihuru 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 xpl0itrs'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.