Was Shape Corp hit by ransomware?

Shape Corp was listed by the nova 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 nova ransomware group?

nova 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 Shape Corp breach?

nova published data attributed to Shape Corp. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Shape Corp

Claimed by Nova · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 8, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Nova
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Oct 8, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Shape Corp is a global leader in automotive engineering and manufacturing, specializing in crash management and body structure solutions. The company utilizes ultra-high strength steel roll forming, tight tolerance aluminum extrusions, and large tonnage injection molding. It focuses on lightweight, innovative products designed to maximize performance while minimizing environmental impact.

Industry: Automotive Engineering & Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of significant proprietary business data including engineering IP (CAD, CNC programs, mechanical designs), financial records, and production data from a major automotive manufacturer; represents serious competitive and operational risk, though no regulated personal data (e.g. PII at scale, medical) is explicitly mentioned.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated a broad range of data from Shape Corp, including engineering design files, CAD and mechanical designs, CNC programs, financial records, and quality assurance data. The disclosed status indicates data has been published.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Engineering design files
CAD files
Mechanical designs
CNC programs
Project documentation
Automation data
Marketing and presentation assets
Brand media
Financial records
Production records
Quality assurance records

What the group claims

Shape Corp. is a global leader in automotive engineering and manufacturing, providing advanced crash management and body structure solutions utilizing ultra-high strength steel roll forming, tight tolerance aluminum extrusions and large tonnage injection molding. The company specializes in producing lightweight and innovative products that maximize performance while minimizing environmental impact. [[ Data extracted include Engineering design files, Marketing and presentation assets, CAD, mechanical designs, CNC programs, project documentation, automation data, brand media, financial, production, and quality assurance records etc.. ]]

Sources

Leak posthttp://pifk3xu3vad6cuxsjll4qjomyaaaoyvnyqppro75pazadzctrrvpdnyd.onion/#

Source

Indexed 9 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

October 8, 2025Shape Corp listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 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, Shape Corp is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Shape Corp 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 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.