Was INAPI hit by ransomware?

INAPI was listed by the nightspire ransomware operation (Algeria), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the nightspire ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the INAPI breach?

nightspire published data attributed to INAPI. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial (INAPI)

listed as INAPI · Claimed by Nightspire · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Nightspire
Status: Data leaked
Country: Algeria
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

INAPI is Chile's National Institute of Industrial Property, a government agency responsible for administering and performing services related to industrial property rights including trademarks, patents, and other intellectual property protection. It promotes innovation and entrepreneurship through efficient systems for registration and management of industrial property rights.

Industry: Government & Public Administration - Intellectual Property
Address: Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 194, 1st floor, Santiago, Chile

Attack summary

Severity: medium — INAPI is a government agency holding sensitive intellectual property records and potentially PII of patent/trademark applicants and staff. However, the leak post provides no proof of successful data exfiltration, no inventory of stolen data, and no operational disruption is claimed. Classification as medium due to the critical nature of the target institution and the disclosed status, but lack of substantive proof details.

The nightspire group claims to have targeted INAPI. No specific details are provided in the leak post regarding what data was allegedly exfiltrated or encrypted, or the scope of the attack.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A INAPI commonly refers to Chile's Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial (National Institute of Industrial Property), a Chilean government agency responsible for registering trademarks, patents, and other industrial property rights. However, I cannot confirm with certainty that this is the specific entity you are referencing, as there may be other organizations using this name, and I lack sufficient verified detail to provide a confident, accurate profile without risking inaccuracy.

Sources

Victim sitewww.inapi.cl/en/about-inapi/inapi

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 367 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: NIGHT SPIRE.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 9, 2026INAPI listed by nightspire on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nightspire

nightspire has been linked to 367 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 Technology sector, which has 3,581 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, INAPI is reported in Algeria, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nightspire means INAPI 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 nightspire'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.