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TUI China

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 5 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 3, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dragonforce
Status
Data leaked
Country
China
Sector
Hospitality
Listed on leak site
Aug 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

TUI China is a joint venture subsidiary of TUI Group, the world's largest leisure tourism operator. Established in late 2003 as the first foreign-majority joint venture in the Chinese tourism industry, it operates travel and tourism services in China.

Industry
Tourism & Travel
Founded
2003

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive PII (passports, visas) and financial/legal business records at scale from a major international tourism operator. Passports and visa data represent regulated personal information affecting potentially thousands of customers.

The dragonforce group claims to have exfiltrated passports, visas, internal documentation, and legal and financial documents from TUI China. No encryption or operational disruption is mentioned.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Passports
  • Visas
  • Internal documentation
  • Legal documents
  • Financial documents

What the group claims

An affiliate of TUI Group, the world's number one leisure tourism business, TUI China was established in late 2003 as the first joint venture with foreign majority share in the Chinese tourism industry. Passports, visas, internal documentation, legal and financial documents, etc.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Dragonforce

Dragonforce is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim selection. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their rapid accumulation of 439 documented victims suggests either sophisticated capabilities or possible connections to existing ransomware infrastructure. Based on their targeting patterns across diverse sectors including manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction, Dragonforce appears to employ opportunistic attack methodologies, though specific initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been publicly detailed by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Italy representing their most frequent victim locations, suggesting possible language capabilities or geographic operational preferences. As of current reporting, Dragonforce appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim acquisition, though the lack of detailed public analysis from major threat intelligence organizations indicates either operational security measures that have limited researcher visibility or that the group has not yet conducted sufficiently high-profile attacks to warrant extensive public documentation by CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group has been linked to 650 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post August 3, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 3, 2026TUI China listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 650 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Dragonforce dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality sector, which has 105 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, TUI China is reported in China, a country with 43 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means TUI China 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 Dragonforce'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.