Disclosure context

About payoutsking

PayoutsKing is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating broad geographic and sectoral targeting capabilities. With limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources, the group's origin and affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional ransomware operation rather than opportunistic attacks. Based on available victim data, PayoutsKing has compromised approximately 60 organizations across multiple sectors, with primary focus on the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Spain, targeting manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and construction industries alongside various other sectors. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly detailed by established security researchers or government agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in July 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by reputable sources such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time. PayoutsKing appears to remain active as of current reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security firms have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 30, 2026Sofinter S.p.a listed by payoutskingon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sofinter S.p.a is reported in IT, a country with 195 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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Sofinter S.p.a

Claimed by payoutsking · listed 21 days ago

21d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 30, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: payoutsking
Status: Data leaked
Country: IT
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sofinter S.p.A. is an Italian industrial group headquartered in Milan, operating worldwide in the design and manufacturing of large industrial boilers for steam and energy production from coal, oil, gas, biomass, and waste. It serves the energy, oil and gas, petrochemical, and power generation sectors. The group comprises multiple highly specialised subsidiaries and serves both domestic and international markets.

Industry: Industrial Boilers & Thermal Energy Equipment Manufacturing
Address: Via Conservatorio, 17 – 20122 Milano, Italy

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor, and the company itself issued a formal GDPR Article 34 public notification confirming a cybersecurity incident, indicating confirmed data exfiltration affecting personal data. The victim operates in critical industrial energy infrastructure sectors.

The ransomware group 'payoutsking' claims to have attacked Sofinter S.p.A. with data published (disclosed status: data_published); the company itself published a cybersecurity incident notice on its website dated February 2026, confirming a security incident under GDPR Art. 34. The specific nature of exfiltrated data has not been detailed in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Potentially GDPR-regulated personal data (implied by Art. 34 GDPR notification)

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Sofinter S.p.A. is an Italian industrial company specializing in the design and manufacturing of heat recovery systems, boilers, and thermal energy equipment. Operating in the energy and power generation sector, it serves industries including oil and gas, petrochemical, and power plants. Headquartered in Italy, Sofinter provides engineering solutions focused on steam generation and waste heat recovery, supporting both domestic and international markets.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

PayoutsKing PayoutsKing Blog News About Partnership Welcome PK MAIN TOX: 535F403A2EA2DC71A392E18D7DB77FEF70845C0B7E5B9114CD30D301870304379C3547E324E2 Company Create Website Country Revenue Employees Actions Data Views Status H****l 2026-04-21 t****.com USA $786M ** Exfiltrated 860GB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 F****p 2026-04-14 fl****.com USA $2.7B ** Exfiltrated &amp; Encrypted 1.1TB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 H****o 2026-04-01 has****.com USA $TBD ** Exfiltrated &amp; Encrypted 4.8TB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 A****y 2026-03-31 ape****.com USA $309M ** Exfiltrated &amp; Encrypted 3TB 0 Declared 2d 00:04 NTN Bearing Corporation of America 2026-04-24 ntnamericas.com USA $1.5B 4700 Exfiltrated 596GB 420 Proof 6d 02:09 About company: NTN Bearing is a producer of ball and roller bearings, with plants around the globe and a strong, domestic manufacturing network. Data description: Confidential, Employees&#39; PII (Personally Identifiable Information), Correspondence, Financial, Engineering, Contracts, Agreements, NDA, FULL INFO SunSource 2026-04-20 sun-source.com USA $2B 3500 Exfiltrated 700GB 3401 Disclosed About company: SunSource is a distribution company, providing products, services, and information in…

Sources

Victim sitesofinter.it
Leak posthttp://payoutsgn7cy6uliwevdqspncjpfxpmzgirwl2au65la7rfs5x3qnbqd.onion/4qDCcB-uN4ha8-gzhW4u-84L3ij-k77sBe

Source

Indexed 21 days ago

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