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Kedah State Government

listed as Kedah · Claimed by Nova · listed 7 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 16, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Malaysia
Listed on leak site
Jun 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Kedah State Government operates an official corporate portal providing information and services to citizens, businesses, and tourists. The portal facilitates online transactions, customer satisfaction surveys, government policy updates, and maintains dedicated sections for tourism, education, and corporate financing.

Industry
Government Administration

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration from a government entity with access to citizen PII, business data, and official government records. State-level government data exposure poses significant regulatory and public safety concerns.

Nova claims to have exfiltrated data from the Kedah State Government portal. The group states it can provide samples from stolen data upon contact.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government records
  • Citizen personal information
  • Business transaction data
  • Survey responses
  • Policy documentation

What the group claims

The Kedah State Government operates an official corporate portal that provides information and services to the public, businesses, and tourists. It offers various services including online transactions, customer satisfaction surveys, and updates on government policies. The portal also features sections dedicated to tourism, education, and corporate financing, aiming to enhance the quality of life for residents and visitors. Its intended clients include citizens of Kedah, local businesses, and tourists seeking information about the state - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 hours 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 164 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post June 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 16, 2026Kedah listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 164 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Kedah is reported in Malaysia, a country with 40 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Kedah 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.
  • 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.