Was nokotapackers.com hit by ransomware?

nokotapackers.com was listed by the Projectrelic ransomware operation (India), 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 Projectrelic ransomware group?

Projectrelic 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 nokotapackers.com breach?

Projectrelic published data attributed to nokotapackers.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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NoKota Packers, Inc.

listed as nokotapackers.com · Claimed by Projectrelic · listed 1 year ago

13m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 1, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Projectrelic
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Jun 1, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NoKota Packers, Inc. is a potato storage, washing, and packaging facility operating in the Red River Valley for over 40 years. They process and distribute tablestock potatoes throughout the United States and offer direct-to-consumer sales of non-saleable potatoes to reduce food waste.

Industry: Agricultural Processing & Potato Packing
Address: 16218 13th St NE, Buxton, North Dakota 58313, USA

Attack summary

Severity: low — No operational impact is stated, no proof files or screenshots are advertised, no data inventory is disclosed, and the leak post contains no actionable evidence of a breach beyond a listing announcement.

Projectrelic claims to have published data from NoKota Packers; however, the leak post provided contains only an 'N/A' placeholder with no substantive details about what was compromised, exfiltrated, or encrypted, nor any description of the attack method.

low

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

"N/A"

Sources

Victim sitenokotapackers.com

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Projectrelic

Projectrelic is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim extortion activities. The group has been documented attacking 46 organizations primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, India, Germany, and France, with a focus on technology, manufacturing, construction, and education sectors, though many victims' sector classifications remain undocumented. Limited public intelligence exists regarding Projectrelic's country of origin, organizational structure, or potential affiliations with other cybercriminal groups, and it remains unclear whether they operate as an independent entity or utilize a ransomware-as-a-service model. Similarly, detailed information about their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or use of double extortion tactics has not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has not been associated with any particularly high-profile attacks or record ransom demands that have garnered significant public attention from security researchers or government agencies. Based on available reporting, Projectrelic appears to maintain some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status are limited due to the relatively sparse public documentation surrounding this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 46 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 11, 2022; most recent post November 9, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 1, 2025nokotapackers.com listed by Projectrelicon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Projectrelic

Projectrelic has been linked to 46 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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nokotapackers.com is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Projectrelic means nokotapackers.com 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 Projectrelic'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.