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Baum

Claimed by Nova · listed 2 months ago

10 GB
Data size
58d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 18, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Romania
Sector
Gaming/Entertainment
Listed on leak site
May 18, 2026
Data size
10 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Baum is a Romanian company founded in 1993 as a family business, initially focused on producing multigame slot machines under an original concept. The company grew gradually on the basis of successive successful multigame product versions, establishing itself in the Romanian gaming machine market.

Industry
Gaming Machines & Slot Machine Manufacturing
Founded
1993

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data exfiltration is claimed and stated to have been leaked, but no details on volume, regulated data types, or specific sensitive categories are provided, and the company operates in the gaming/entertainment sector without indication of large-scale PII or regulated data exposure.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have leaked data belonging to Baum after the company did not respond to contact, indicating exfiltration of company data which has now been published.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company data (unspecified)

What the group claims

Founded in 1993, Baum started as a family business producing multigame slot-machines under an original concept, developing gradually based on the success of each multigame version created for the Romanian market.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
1993 este anul fondării companiei noastre, povestea Baum debutând cu intenția de a produce aparate multigame slot-machines sub un concept original. Totul a pornit ca o afacere de familie, dezvoltându-se treptat, pe baza succesului avut de fiecare dintre versiunile de multigame create și impuse pe piața românească de profil.
Don Bosco Technical Institute of Makati
Don Bosco Technical Institute of Makati is dedicated to providing quality education and holistic formation for students from elementary to senior high school, as well as technical vocational education. The institution aims to develop competent, service-oriented individuals who embody the values of the Salesian educational system. It primarily serves underprivileged youth, equipping them with the necessary skills and competencies for better employment opportunities. The school emphasizes a curriculum that integrates academic excellence with spiritual and moral development.
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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 183 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 18, 2026Baum listed by novaon the group's public leak site
Data size
10 GB

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Gaming/Entertainment sector. Geographically, Baum is reported in Romania, a country with 20 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Baum 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 nova'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.