Disclosure context

About Karakurt

Karakurt is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating primarily as a data extortion threat actor with financial motivations rather than traditional file encryption. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major cybersecurity agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent entity rather than a confirmed ransomware-as-a-service operation. Karakurt employs data theft and extortion tactics, focusing on exfiltrating sensitive information from victim networks before demanding payment under threat of public disclosure, representing a pure extortion model that bypasses traditional encryption-based ransomware approaches. The group has targeted 74 known victims across multiple sectors, with particular focus on healthcare, education, manufacturing, energy, and professional services organizations, primarily affecting entities in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, and India. Based on available reporting from established cybersecurity agencies and researchers, Karakurt appears to remain active as of recent assessments, though comprehensive intelligence on their specific attack vectors, tools, and major campaigns remains limited in publicly documented sources from CISA, FBI, and major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 74 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 11, 2022; most recent post September 22, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 28, 2023Pan Pacific Hotels Group listed by Karakurton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality sector. Geographically, Pan Pacific Hotels Group is reported in Singapore, a country with 22 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.

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Pan Pacific Hotels Group

Claimed by Karakurt · listed 3 years ago

35m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 28, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Karakurt
Status: Data leaked
Country: Singapore
Sector: Hospitality
Listed on leak site: Jun 28, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pan Pacific Hotels Group is a wholly-owned hotel subsidiary of Singapore-listed UOL Group Limited, operating three brands: Pan Pacific, PARKROYAL COLLECTION, and PARKROYAL. The group manages and owns hotels, resorts, and serviced suites across the Asia-Pacific, Oceania, and North America regions. The affected property cited in the leak is Pan Pacific Melbourne, Australia.

Industry: Hospitality & Hotel Management
Address: Pan Pacific Hotels Group, 7 Straits View, Marina One East Tower, Singapore 018936
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1986

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated PII at scale including government-issued identity documents (passports, driver's licences) and SSNs from hotel guests and/or staff, combined with 40+ GB of corporate data and a data_published status indicating active or imminent release.

Karakurt claims to have exfiltrated 40+ GB of data from Pan Pacific Melbourne, including corporate documents, personal identification documents (SSNs, passports, driver's licences), and contracts. The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating the group has begun or is threatening to release the stolen data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate contracts
Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Passport copies
Driver's licence copies
Personal documents
Corporate documents

What the group claims

Pan Pacific Hotels Group is a wholly-owned hotel subsidiary of Singapore-listed UOL Group Limited. Pan Pacific Melbourne has lost lots of corporate and personal documents. Contracts, ssns, passports, drivers licenses. 40+GB of data are coming.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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