Was Balai Besar POM di Bandung hit by ransomware?

Balai Besar POM di Bandung was listed by the nova ransomware operation (Indonesia), 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 nova ransomware group?

nova 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 Balai Besar POM di Bandung breach?

nova published data attributed to Balai Besar POM di Bandung (~10 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Balai Besar POM di Bandung

Claimed by Nova · listed 2 days ago

10 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Nova
Status: Data leaked
Country: Indonesia
Sector: Government/Regulatory
Listed on leak site: Jun 15, 2026
Data size: 10 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Balai Besar POM di Bandung is an Indonesian regulatory body under the Ministry of Health responsible for supervision of food and drugs. The organization provides certification services for good distribution practices, food production, and testing of food and drugs to manufacturers, importers, and the public.

Industry: Government/Regulatory - Food & Drug Supervision

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 10 GB of data from a government regulatory body responsible for food and drug safety. Exposure of regulatory and certification records could impact public health oversight and consumer safety.

Nova claims to have encrypted servers and exfiltrated data from Balai Besar POM di Bandung. The group states it stole approximately 10 GB of data and is threatening to publish it unless the victim makes contact for negotiation.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

regulatory documents
certification records
inspection reports
organizational records

What the group claims

A regulatory body focused on the supervision of food and drugs in Indonesia. They provide various services including certification for good distribution practices, food production, and testing of food and drugs.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Balai Besar POM di Bandung is a regulatory body focused on the supervision of food and drugs in Indonesia. They provide various services including certification for good distribution practices, food production, and testing of food and drugs. Their intended clients include manufacturers, importers, and the general public seeking information and assistance regarding food and drug safety. The organization operates with a commitment to transparency and public information, ensuring compliance with health regulations - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.
The trevi.it website is the official brand portal for the Italian consumer electronics company Trevi S.p.A., which is owned by Trevidea srl - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.
Universitas Nasional (UNAS) is an educational institution that offers a wide range of academic programs, including undergraduate and postgraduate degrees across various faculties such as Social Sciences, Law, Economics, and Health Sciences. The university aims to provide quality education and has implemented a robust in…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Balai Besar POM di Bandung

Sources

Leak posthttp://novadmrkp4vbk2padk5t6pbxolndceuc7hrcq4mjaoyed6nxsqiuzyyd.onion

Source

Indexed 2 days 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 165 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 15, 2026Balai Besar POM di Bandung listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 10 GB

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 165 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government/Regulatory sector. Geographically, Balai Besar POM di Bandung is reported in Indonesia, a country with 77 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Balai Besar POM di Bandung 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.