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The Lowell Hotel New York

Claimed by Metaencryptor · listed 1 year ago

12m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 24, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Metaencryptor
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site
Jun 24, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Lowell Hotel is a landmark luxury hotel established in 1927, located on the Upper East Side near Central Park and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. One of the few remaining family-owned hotels in New York, it operates a 17-floor property with upscale guest rooms, suites, fine dining restaurants (Majorelle, Jacques Bar), and spa services (Dior Spa New York).

Industry
Luxury Hospitality & Hotels
Address
28 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065
Founded
1927

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a generic announcement with no proof files, no details on data exfiltration, no sample data, and no substantive claim beyond naming the victim. No operational impact is stated.

Metaencryptor claims to have attacked The Lowell Hotel. The leak post provides no details on the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or the specific data allegedly compromised.

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What the group claims

The Lowell is a New York legacy and a landmark luxury hotel, located near Central Park and all the wonderful shops of Madison Avenue. Established in 1927.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Metaencryptor

Metaencryptor is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographical regions. The group appears to be an independent operation rather than a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, though limited public documentation makes definitive attribution challenging regarding their specific country of origin or connections to established cybercriminal networks. Based on their targeting patterns, Metaencryptor demonstrates a preference for manufacturing organizations, business services, and transportation/logistics companies, with their operations concentrated primarily in Western nations including Germany, the United States, Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom. With 31 documented victims since their emergence, the group represents a moderate but persistent threat in the ransomware landscape. However, due to their recent emergence and relatively lower profile compared to major ransomware families, comprehensive technical analysis of their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and specific initial access vectors has not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. The group's current operational status remains active as of available intelligence, though the limited public reporting suggests they operate with a smaller scale and lower visibility than prominent ransomware-as-a-service operations that typically attract more attention from law enforcement and security researchers. The group has been linked to 31 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 16, 2023; most recent post June 24, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 24, 2025The Lowell Hotel New York listed by Metaencryptoron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Metaencryptor

Metaencryptor has been linked to 31 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 Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Lowell Hotel New York is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Metaencryptor means The Lowell Hotel New York 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Metaencryptor'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.