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Oil India Limited

Claimed by Snatch · listed 4 years ago

46m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 5, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Snatch
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Energy
Listed on leak site
Oct 5, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Oil India Limited (OIL) is a Government of India enterprise and one of India's premier upstream hydrocarbon companies, engaged in exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas. Headquartered in Duliajan, Assam, it operates across multiple Indian states and overseas assets. OIL is a Navratna public sector undertaking listed on Indian stock exchanges.

Industry
Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
Address
Duliajan, Assam, India
Employees
5001-10000
Founded
1959

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Oil India Limited is a state-owned strategic energy infrastructure company handling regulated financial data, employee PII, and sensitive operational/engineering data for national hydrocarbon assets; confirmed data_published status by a known extortion group targeting a critical infrastructure entity elevates this to critical severity.

The Snatch ransomware group claims an attack on Oil India Limited and has listed the disclosure status as data_published, indicating that exfiltrated data has been released or made available; no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the available post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate documents
  • Operational data
  • Employee records
  • Financial records
  • Engineering/technical data

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 5, 2022Oil India Limited listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Snatch dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Oil India Limited is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Oil India Limited 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, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Snatch'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.