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OnTrac

Claimed by Emperador · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 23, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Emperador
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Transportation
Listed on leak site
Sep 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

OnTrac is a major last-mile e-commerce delivery company formed by the 2021 merger of LaserShip and OnTrac. It operates coast-to-coast with 7-day-a-week service and reaches over 75% of the U.S. population, positioning itself as a direct alternative to FedEx and UPS.

Industry
Last-Mile E-commerce Delivery & Logistics
Founded
2021

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of employee PII at massive scale (197k records). Threat actors have explicitly stated intent to publish and monetize the data, and have already contacted multiple company email addresses with ransom demand.

The grupo claims to have exfiltrated OnTrac's complete employee database containing 197,000 records of employee personally identifiable information (PII). The group explicitly states intent to publicly release the data unless a ransom demand of 1 million is met.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee database
  • Employee PII (197k records)

What the group claims

OnTrac is a major last-mile e-commerce delivery company formed by the 2021 merger of LaserShip and OnTrac. It positions itself as a direct alternative to FedEx and UPS, offering coast-to-coast coverage, 7-day-a-week operations, and competitive rates to reach over 75% of the U.S. population. We hold your full employee database, 197k records of employee PII: employeeNumber,xrefCode,firstName,middleName,lastName,loginId,employeeId,hireDate,originalHireDate,startDate,terminated,roles,legalEntity,legalEntityAddress,homePhone,mobilePhone,businessPhone,businessMobile,pager,personalFax,personalEmail,businessEmail,facebook,linkedin,addressPrimary1,addressPrimary2,addressMailing1,addressMailing2,userApproved,nativeAuth,culture We demand an amount of 1 million, otherwise your data WILL be publicly posted. Instructions will be emailed to you shortly. If you do not receive them, contact me on session, or email me. Session: 05651c7323273b723588d47455471ee9e27feb5187a30f2933554a705aacb38358 Email: [email protected], [email protected] (I prefer session.) If you do not cooperate, your partners and employees will be targeted. Emails were sent to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] [Sector: Retail, Transportation]

The leak post

captured from the group's site
OnTrac is a major last-mile e-commerce delivery company formed by the 2021 merger of LaserShip and OnTrac. It positions itself as a direct alternative to FedEx and UPS, offering coast-to-coast coverage, 7-day-a-week operations, and competitive rates to reach over 75% of the U.S. population.
We hold your full employee database, 197k records of employee PII:
We demand an amount of 1 million, otherwise your data WILL be publicly posted.
Instructions will be emailed to you shortly.
If you do not receive them, contact me on session, or email me.
If you do not cooperate, your partners and employees will be targeted, we will also sell the data to interested parties.
Emails were sent to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 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 42 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 12, 2026; most recent post September 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 23, 2026OnTrac listed by emperador on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by emperador

emperador has been linked to 42 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 Transportation sector, which has 47 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, OnTrac is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by emperador means OnTrac 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 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.