Was JRT Automatisation hit by ransomware?

JRT Automatisation was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (Canada), 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 JRT Automatisation breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to JRT Automatisation. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Automatisation JRT Inc.

listed as JRT Automatisation · Claimed by Spacebears · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 20, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Listed on leak site: Dec 20, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Automatisation JRT Inc., founded in Quebec City in 1984, designs and manufactures automation control systems with primary focus on elevator controllers, industrial control panels, and water treatment systems. The company employs over 130 people and operates departments in elevator systems, industrial automation, water treatment, software, and sales/distribution, serving both domestic and international markets.

Industry: Industrial Automation & Control Systems (elevators, industrial panels, water treatment)
Address: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Employees: 130+
Founded: 1984

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business data including customer and employee PII, financial records, and operational databases from a manufacturing/critical systems company. No proof files advertised but disclosure already published.

Spacebears claims to have exfiltrated financial documents, accounting reports, SQL databases, customer database, and personal information of employees and clients from Automatisation JRT Inc.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial documents
Accounting reports
SQL databases
Customer database
Employee personal information
Client personal information

What the group claims

Founded in Quebec City in 1984, Automatisation JRT Inc. first manufactured control panels for what would later become the Industrial department. As early as 1985, Automatisation JRT Inc. designed control systems for elevators, which is now the company's most important niche. The company underwent several waves of growth over the years and that is how the distribution, software and water treatment departments were added to the original ones.Now bringing together more than one hundred and thirty employees at its Quebec City head office, JRT aims to be one of the most important players in the development of automation in Quebec, in addition to expanding internationally thanks to its sales force and with the help of its many partners. Always on the lookout for new technologies, our activities are mainly concentrated in the elevator, industrial and water treatment fields. You have ideas, we have the resources to make them happen. Our teams of enthusiasts will be able to support you in the different phases of the development of your projects until you achieve the desired result.• Financial document, accounting reports, sql, customer database, personal information of employees and client https://www.jrtinc.com/

Sources

Victim sitejrtinc.com
Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/44/jrt-automatisation

Source

Indexed 2 years 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

December 20, 2024JRT Automatisation 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

Geographically, JRT Automatisation is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means JRT Automatisation 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, CCCS (Canada), 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.