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South Pacific Inc

Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 4 years ago

46m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 19, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbyte
Status
Data leaked
Country
Philippines
Sector
Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site
Sep 19, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

South Pacific Inc. (SPI) is a 100% Filipino-owned company engaged in the downstream wholesale of LPG products and operates one of the largest LPG import terminals in the Philippines. Its primary import terminal is located in Calaca, Batangas, with additional terminals in Mandaue, Cebu and San Simon, Pampanga. The company is capable of receiving refrigerated cargoes from Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGCs) and distributes quality LPG products nationwide.

Industry
LPG Downstream Distribution & Import Terminal Operations
Address
16th Floor, Strata 100 Building, F. Ortigas Jr. Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, 1605, Philippines

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by Blackbyte against a critical energy infrastructure operator (LPG import and distribution terminals serving national supply). Compromise of an energy utility's data — including operational, customer, and business records — at a company operating multiple large-scale import terminals constitutes a high-severity incident due to both the sensitivity of energy sector operational data and the potential national supply-chain implications.

Blackbyte claims to have compromised South Pacific Inc. and has published data from the attack. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, though no specific data size or ransom amount was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate business data
  • Operational terminal records
  • Customer information
  • Stakeholder records

What the group claims

South Pacific Inc. (SPI) is a 100% Filipino-owned company engaged in the downstream business of LPG industry.Situated in an ideal and strategic location in Calaca, Batangas, SPI’s large storage capacity and ample draft of jetty makes it capable of receiving refrigerated cargoes from Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGC) which gives the company the most competitive gas cost in the country.SPI, alongside its stakeholders, commits to continuously provide quality LPG products and to render the most efficient service to its customers in fulfillment of its Vision.Geared towards amplifying its business, SPI is continuously making progressive efforts through expanding and establishing its network. To date, SPI also operates and maintains its terminal in Mandaue, Cebu and San Simon, Pampanga.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blackbyte

BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in October 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group is suspected to operate from Russia or former Soviet states based on their use of Russian-language forums and avoidance of targeting organizations in Commonwealth of Independent States countries, though they maintain no confirmed links to other established ransomware families. BlackByte operators typically gain initial access through vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of remote desktop protocol (RDP) services, employing tools such as Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and data exfiltration before deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses AES-256 encryption with RSA-2048 key protection. The group has demonstrated particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors, with the FBI and CISA issuing joint advisories in February 2022 highlighting attacks against organizations in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and education sectors, including notable incidents affecting San Francisco's transportation authority and multiple healthcare systems across the United States. BlackByte remains active as of 2024, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their leak site for publishing stolen data from victims who refuse to pay ransoms. The group has been linked to 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 4, 2021; most recent post July 30, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 19, 2022South Pacific Inc listed by Blackbyteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blackbyte

Blackbyte has been linked to 147 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 Energy & Utilities sector, which has 163 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, South Pacific Inc is reported in Philippines, a country with 28 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blackbyte means South Pacific Inc 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 Blackbyte'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.