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Hawbaker Engineering

Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 2 years ago

743 GB
Data size
$740
Ransom
demanded
30m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 24, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomhouse
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Jan 24, 2024
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hawbaker Engineering is an integrated design and construction services firm offering surveying, land development, permitting, construction management, design-build, landscape architecture, and energy development services. The company serves clients in infrastructure, solar energy, oil & gas, and commercial projects.

Industry
Engineering & Construction Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Large data volume (743 GB) exfiltrated and encryption confirmed; however, the leak post provides no detailed inventory of sensitive data types, no proof files displayed, and no evidence of regulated/sensitive data at scale (PII, medical, financial). Appears to be primarily business operational data.

Ransomware group Ransomhouse claims to have encrypted Hawbaker Engineering's systems. The leak post indicates 743 GB of data was exfiltrated, though the post primarily lists other unrelated victim companies rather than detailing specific data stolen from Hawbaker.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business records
  • Project files
  • Client information
  • Engineering designs

What the group claims

Hawbaker Engineering was born from a desire to build upon our wealth of construction experience, incorporating sound engineering principles into the design process from concept to completion. Combining construction know-how and engineering expertise under one roof allows Hawbaker Engineering to bring a unique perspective to the engineering, design, and construction communities. Since 2002 Hawbaker Engineering has been providing exemplary civil engineering, surveying, land development, and construction management services. We take pride in tailoring our services to best fit our client’s needs and budget. The inherent benefit of continual and integrated examination of project value, performance, constructability and schedule is one of the key drivers to Hawbaker Engineer’s success.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
```
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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating primarily for financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent cybercriminal organization rather than a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. Ransomhouse employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if victims refuse to pay the demanded ransom. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with documented attacks against 187 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, focusing heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented by major security firms, the group's consistent victim count and geographic distribution indicate sustained operational capability since their emergence. As of current reporting, Ransomhouse remains active with no known major law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 210 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 1, 2021; most recent post June 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HOUSE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 24, 2024Hawbaker Engineering listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

Other recent disclosures by Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse has been linked to 210 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ransomhouse dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hawbaker Engineering is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomhouse means Hawbaker Engineering 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 Ransomhouse'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.