Was Metro Wire & Cable hit by ransomware?

Metro Wire & Cable was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Spacebears ransomware group?

Spacebears is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Metro Wire & Cable breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to Metro Wire & Cable. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Metro Wire & Cable

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 1 year ago

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 26, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jan 26, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Metro Wire & Cable is one of the nation's top 150 electrical distributors, founded in Detroit in 1976. Headquartered in Sterling Heights, Michigan, with regional distribution centers in Atlanta and Iowa City, the company provides warehousing, supply chain, and delivery services of wire and cable products to utilities, contractors, manufacturers, and infrastructure sectors across North America.

Industry: Electrical Distribution & Supply
Address: Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1976

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive business data (financial records, accounting reports) combined with employee and client PII at scale. The victim is an established mid-market distributor with regional operations, suggesting significant data volume.

Spacebears claims to have exfiltrated financial documents, accounting reports, and personal information of employees and clients from Metro Wire & Cable. The group has published data without stating a ransom demand.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial documents
Accounting reports
Employee personal information
Client personal information

What the group claims

Metro Wire & Cable—one of the nation’s top 150 electrical distributors—provides warehousing, supply chain and delivery services of wire and cable products for a broad spectrum of markets. These markets include public utilities, electrical contractors, wind farm developers, commercial and industrial HVAC industries, traffic and transportation sectors, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) and the security/low voltage industries.Our company was founded in Detroit in 1976 and since then we’ve only continued to grow. Our Southeast Regional Distribution Center was established in Atlanta in 1981, and our Midwest Regional Distribution Center opened its doors in Iowa City in 2008. We’re now headquartered in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and we’re dedicated to maintaining extensive inventories tailored specifically to customer requirements at each location.• Financial document, accounting reports, personal information of employees and clients https://www.metrowire.net/

Sources

Victim sitemetrowire.net
Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/56/metro-wire-cable

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 185 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 26, 2025Metro Wire & Cable listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 185 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Metro Wire & Cable is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means Metro Wire & Cable 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 Spacebears'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.