Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,858 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 17, 2026Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 259 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah is reported in MY, a country with 29 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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Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah

Claimed by qilin · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 17, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: MY
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: May 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah (MPAG) is the municipal council administering the Alor Gajah district in Melaka, Malaysia. It provides a range of public services including assessment tax collection, solid waste management, licensing, urban planning, and property valuation. The council operates multiple public facilities and digital services for residents of the Alor Gajah district.

Industry: Local Government / Municipal Council
Address: Alor Gajah, Melaka, Malaysia

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a government municipal council handling citizen PII, property records, licensing, and financial data. Data has been published (data_published status), indicating confirmed exfiltration of public-sector data affecting residents and government operations, consistent with a high-severity classification.

The Qilin ransomware group claims to have compromised MPAG and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post itself contains no additional detail on the nature of exfiltration or encryption, and no ransom amount was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government administrative records
Resident/citizen data
Property assessment records
Business licensing records
Financial records
Employee/HR data (HRMIS)
Public complaints data
Building permit records

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

[Australian College of Business Intelligence](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=5ecb65aa-3960-4b61-ab37-802b4eb3d3d5)
[Cooperativa de Hospitales de Antioquia - COHAN](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=bd0eebf4-e436-4f46-b7d8-0c21f8fff528)
[John G Yphantides A Professional Law](http://ijzn3sicrcy7guixkzjkib4ukbiilwc3xhnmby4mcbccnsd7j2rekvqd.onion/site/blog?uuid=1e464ce5-6e74-4e62-be0b-eac503e43af8)
Law Firms & Legal Services 
Law Firms & Legal Services

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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