Disclosure context

About coinbasecartel

CoinbaseCartel is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025 with financially motivated operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has demonstrated significant activity in a short timeframe, compromising at least 102 known victims primarily across the United States, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. Their targeting patterns show a preference for technology companies, financial services organizations, manufacturing entities, and consumer services businesses, suggesting an opportunistic approach focused on organizations likely to have both valuable data and the financial resources to pay ransoms. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, details regarding their specific attack methodologies, infrastructure, and organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. The group appears to maintain active operations as of late 2025, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits further investigation and reporting by established threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 176 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 15, 2025; most recent post May 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: coinbase cartel.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 23, 2026Peru LNG (Hunt LNG Operating Company) listed by coinbasecartelon the group's public leak site

Data size: 43 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 374 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Peru LNG (Hunt LNG Operating Company) is reported in PE, a country with 4 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Peru LNG (Hunt LNG Operating Company)

Claimed by coinbasecartel · listed 28 days ago

43 GB

Data size

27d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 23, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: coinbasecartel
Status: Data leaked
Country: PE
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Apr 23, 2026
Data size: 43 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Peru LNG, operated by Hunt LNG Operating Company, operates the first natural gas processing and liquefaction plant in South America, located at Pampa Melchorita on the Peruvian coast. The plant processes natural gas from the Camisea fields and exports LNG primarily to international markets. The company positions Peru as a regional leader in the LNG industry and is a significant player in the country's hydrocarbon export sector.

Industry: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Production & Export
Address: Pampa Melchorita, Cañete, Lima Region, Peru (plant location)

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor against a critical energy infrastructure operator involved in LNG production and export; compromise of an energy company of this strategic importance represents significant operational and national security risk even without explicit enumeration of the data volume.

The coinbasecartel group claims to have compromised Peru LNG and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify whether encryption occurred or detail the volume of exfiltrated data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate operational data
Supplier/vendor portal records
Investor relations documents
Compliance and regulatory filings
Employee/HR records (inferred)

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Peru LNG, operated by Hunt LNG Operating Company, is an energy company engaged in the liquefaction and export of natural gas in Peru. It operates a liquefied natural gas plant in Pampa Melchorita on the Peruvian coast, processing gas from the Camisea fields. The company exports LNG primarily to international markets, making it a key player in Peru's hydrocarbon and energy export sector.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

System Breach • Coinbasecartel We are looking for new partners/insiders. Send us a message to dicuss We are looking for new partners/insiders. Send us a message to dicuss CRITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS &times; Contact Update We have changed our contact method. We now exclusively use qTox Messenger for all communications. SimpleX and Session have been discontinued. Our Tox ID: A7580331D4D16453CCE86D7ADFBCF0CEED0D0D1AEA8F4DBEEBCA9E3B46308F260DE9B41BD838 TO APTIM You may have noticed the sudden, heavy silence. The corporate VPNs are dead. We have been the silent architects of your network for the past three weeks. While your &#34;elite&#34; investigators from Mandiant sat in your logs, we sat directly beside them burning through over a hundred of your corporate identities like disposable tools. we have had your entire network and internal protocols. HOW LONG WILL YOU KEEP YOUR THOUSANDS OF FIELD WORKERS LOCKED OUT? We have successfully exfiltrated the most sensitive engineering data held by any firm in your sectors We hold the complete Navisworks 3D models, P&amp;ID diagrams, and maintenance logic for your major energy plants. This includes the granular Honeywell DCS controller logic. We know…

Sources

Victim siteperulng.com
Leak posthttp://fjg4zi4opkxkvdz7mvwp7h6goe4tcby3hhkrz43pht4j3vakhy75znyd.onion/companies/peru

Source

Indexed 28 days ago

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