Disclosure context

About dunghill

The dunghill ransomware group is a relatively new financially-motivated cybercriminal operation that emerged in April 2023, with documented attacks against 16 victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on limited public reporting, the group's origin and affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service operation. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services and technology sectors, with attacks documented across the United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Bolivia, and Taiwan, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of initial access brokers to expand their geographic reach. While specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports, their multi-country victim distribution suggests they employ common initial access vectors such as phishing, credential theft, or exploitation of internet-facing vulnerabilities. No major high-profile attacks or significant law enforcement actions against the dunghill group have been publicly reported, likely due to their recent emergence and relatively small victim count compared to more established ransomware operations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with limited public visibility into their operations. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 10, 2023; most recent post July 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 6, 2023Sabre Corporation listed by dunghillon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sabre Corporation is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Sabre Corporation

Claimed by dunghill · listed 3 years ago

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Sep 6, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: dunghill
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 6, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sabre Corporation is a leading travel technology company headquartered in Southlake, Texas, and the largest global distribution systems (GDS) provider for air bookings in North America. Its software, data, mobile, and distribution solutions are used by hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotel properties to manage critical operations including reservations, check-in, and retailing. Sabre powers a broad ecosystem of travel partners including airlines, hoteliers, and travel agencies worldwide.

Industry: Travel Technology & Global Distribution Systems
Address: 3150 Sabre Drive, Southlake, TX 76092, United States
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 1960

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Sabre is a critical travel infrastructure provider handling PII at massive scale (passenger name records, payment data, itineraries) for hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotels globally. A confirmed data publication by a ransomware group against this GDS operator constitutes a critical incident affecting regulated personal and financial data across the global travel ecosystem.

The Dunghill ransomware group claims to have attacked Sabre Corporation and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), asserting access to systems underpinning the global travel industry; specific exfiltrated data categories and volume were not enumerated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Airline reservation data
Hotel property management data
Travel distribution platform data
Mobile application backend data
Airport check-in kiosk system data
Online travel site operational data
Travel agent terminal data
Internal business/operational data

What the group claims

Sabre Corporation is the largest global distribution systems provider for air bookings in North America. It's software, data, mobile and distribution solutions are used by hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotel properties to manage critical operations. Sabre is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. It partners with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. Its technology is the intelligence behind mobile apps, airport check-in kiosks, online travel sites, airline and hotel reservation networks, travel agent terminals, and scores of other travel solutions.

Sources

Victim sitesabre.com
Leak posthttp://p66slxmtum2ox4jpayco6ai3qfehd5urgrs4oximjzklxcol264driqd.onion/lot5.html

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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