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Lockheed Martin

listed as Lockheed Martin Employees Given 48 Hours to Respond: A Tight Deadline Looms · Claimed by Handala · listed 4 months ago

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Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 26, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Handala
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Mar 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lockheed Martin is a major American defense, aerospace, and security company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. It is one of the world's largest defense contractors, producing military aircraft, missile systems, and advanced technology solutions for government and military customers globally. The company employs over 100,000 people and generates revenues exceeding $60 billion annually.

Industry
Defense & Aerospace Manufacturing
Employees
100000+
Founded
1995

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated PII (passports, ID numbers, home addresses) belonging to defense-sector engineers involved in military projects, posing severe personal safety, national security, and counterintelligence risks.

Handala Hack claims to have exfiltrated complete personal and professional data on 28 senior American engineers allegedly based in Israeli-occupied territories and involved in military projects, issuing a 48-hour ultimatum to Lockheed Martin employees to respond as part of their stated 'Operation Lockheed Martin.'

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Full names
  • National identification numbers
  • Passport details
  • Home addresses / places of residence
  • Military project affiliations

What the group claims

Lockheed Martin Employees Given 48 Hours to Respond: A Tight Deadline Looms We, the Handala Hack , have today initiated a new phase of Operation Lockheed Martin. We now possess the complete data of 28 senior American engineers based in the occupied territories and involved in military projects—including names, identification numbers, passports, places of residence,…

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Handala

Handala is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in May 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain with potential geopolitical overtones given their targeting patterns. The group's country of origin remains unclear, though their focus on Israeli targets alongside Western nations suggests possible Middle Eastern connections or sympathies, and it is unknown whether they operate as a standalone group or utilize a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their rapid accumulation of 164 documented victims suggests they employ effective compromise techniques across multiple sectors including technology, government, energy, and healthcare organizations. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting victims in Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with additional activity observed in Iran and the UAE, indicating either opportunistic targeting or strategic selection based on geopolitical considerations. Given their recent emergence and continued victim acquisitions throughout 2024, Handala appears to remain active, though comprehensive technical analysis and law enforcement reporting on their operations remain limited due to their relatively short operational history. The group has been linked to 182 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 26, 2024; most recent post April 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 26, 2026Lockheed Martin Employees Given 48 Hours to Respond: A Tight Deadline Looms listed by Handalaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Handala

Handala has been linked to 182 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Lockheed Martin Employees Given 48 Hours to Respond: A Tight Deadline Looms is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Handala means Lockheed Martin Employees Given 48 Hours to Respond: A Tight Deadline Looms 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 Handala'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.