Was Salter's Propane hit by ransomware?

Salter's Propane was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

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Salter's Propane

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 3 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedAug 10, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Energy / Utilities
Listed on leak site: Aug 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Salter's Propane is an energy/utilities company in the propane distribution sector. Limited public information is available; the company appears to operate in the United States based on naming conventions.

Industry: Energy Distribution / Propane Supply

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Company is listed on a leak site with implied exfiltration of employee/client PII and financial documents, but the truncated post provides no proof files, ransom demand, or operational impact details. Data inventory is generic and suggests lower specificity in the group's listing.

The Spacebears group claims to have compromised Salter's Propane and lists the company on their data leak aggregation site, implying data exfiltration. No specific details about the attack method, data types, or proof files are provided in the truncated post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal information of employees and clients
Financial documents
Other files

What the group claims

Salter's Propane provides propane services with competitive pricing, excellent customer service, and 65 combined years of industry experience, serving residential to commercial needs.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Do you trust your data to this company? 
This page contains a list of companies whose clients and business partners entrusted them with their confidential data, but these companies leaked data. The data may contain confidential information such as login credentials, intellectual property, personal and financial data, etc.
[Hitech Distribuzione Informatica S.r.l. (HTDI)](http://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/66/hitech-distribuzione-informatica-srl-htdi)
HTDI is a leading Italian provider of comprehensive IT solutions based in Rome (Via Tempio del Cielo). It positions itself as a single technological partner that accompanies clients through every stage of the IT infrastructure lifecycle — from design and equipment selection to delivery, installation, integration, and ongoing operation (“turnkey” solutions).
The company offers hardware solutions (servers, storage systems, workstations, mobility, and hyperconvergence — certified partner of Dell-EMC, HP, IBM, Lenovo and others), software (middleware, business applications, security solutions, data and business process management — partner of Microsoft, Oracle and other vendors), and full service…

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion

Source

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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 200 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post August 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 10, 2026Salter's Propane listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 200 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 Energy / Utilities sector.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means Salter's Propane appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 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.