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HOE Pharmaceuticals Sdn Bhd

Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 2 years ago

743 GB
Data size
$740
Ransom
demanded
30m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 22, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomhouse
Status
Data leaked
Country
Malaysia
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Jan 22, 2024
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

HOE Pharmaceuticals Sdn Bhd is a pharmaceutical company operating in Malaysia. Based on the domain hoepharma.com.my, the company appears to be engaged in pharmaceutical distribution or manufacturing, though specific details about scale and operational scope are limited from available sources.

Industry
Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 743 GB of data from a pharmaceutical company (healthcare sector with regulated data handling requirements). The substantial data volume and healthcare industry classification indicate significant business and potentially sensitive information exposure, even without visibility into specific data categories.

Ransomhouse claims to have encrypted HOE Pharmaceuticals' systems and exfiltrated approximately 743 GB of company data. The group has published the victim on their leak site under 'data_published' status, indicating both encryption and data theft.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • company files and databases
  • business records
  • operational data

What the group claims

HHOE Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1979. From our humble beginning, we have provided high quality products with affordable price. Our product range have expanded over the years through innovation. Combined with strong commitments to our customers, we set the standards that have ingrained in our culture and practices. We have been focusing on dermatological products since those early days. Now, we have transformed the company into a modern, dynamic force with an objective of becoming one of the leading suppliers of dermatological products in the world. In order to facilitate this growth, we have invested significantly in the state of art manufacturing processes and our adherence to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) which is recognized by international bodies including Members of Pharmaceuticals Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S). Now, we export to more than 20 countries and have fulfilled the stringent requirements imposed from those countries on all imported pharmaceutical and cosmetic products

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating primarily for financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent cybercriminal organization rather than a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. Ransomhouse employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if victims refuse to pay the demanded ransom. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with documented attacks against 187 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, focusing heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented by major security firms, the group's consistent victim count and geographic distribution indicate sustained operational capability since their emergence. As of current reporting, Ransomhouse remains active with no known major law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 210 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 1, 2021; most recent post June 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HOUSE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 22, 2024HOE Pharmaceuticals Sdn Bhd listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

Other recent disclosures by Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse has been linked to 210 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, HOE Pharmaceuticals Sdn Bhd is reported in Malaysia, a country with 45 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomhouse means HOE Pharmaceuticals Sdn Bhd 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 Ransomhouse'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.