Was Statista GmbH hit by ransomware?

Statista GmbH was listed by the direwolf ransomware operation (Germany), 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 direwolf ransomware group?

direwolf is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Statista GmbH breach?

direwolf published data attributed to Statista GmbH. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Statista GmbH

Claimed by Direwolf · listed 7 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 10, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Direwolf
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Statista GmbH is a German data and market research portal providing statistics, market data, and market studies across multiple industry sectors including technology, e-commerce, economy, consumer goods, transportation, energy, travel, tourism, hospitality, and media.

Industry: Data Collection & Internet Portals

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published and the company is GDPR-restricted (indicating personal data handling), but the leak post provides no detail on data volume, specific data types, or proof files. Exfiltration is confirmed by 'data_published' status, but sensitivity and scale are unclear.

The direwolf group claims to have compromised Statista GmbH and published exfiltrated data. No specific details on the nature or scope of the breach are provided in the leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business data
User information

What the group claims

Data Collection & Internet Portals

The leak post

captured from the group's site

```
{"article":{"id":72,"title":"Statista GmbH","content":"","summary":"{\"company_name\":\"Statista GmbH\",\"company_website\":\"https://www.statista.com\",\"industry\":\"Data Collection \\u0026amp; Internet Portals\",\"gdpr_restricted\":true,\"data_size\":\"\"}","country":"DE","file_browser_url":"","data_types":"16,19,20,25,29,30","countdown_end":"2026-08-31T23:59:00Z","status":"","view_count":0,"publish_time":"2026-08-10T18:29:15.509175368Z","created_at":"2026-08-10T18:29:15.509175737Z","updated_at":"2026-08-10T18:29:15.509175737Z"}}
```

Sources

Victim sitestatista.com
Leak posthttp://direwolfcdkv5whaz2spehizdg22jsuf5aeje4asmetpbt6ri4jnd4qd.onion/api/public/articles/72

Source

Indexed 7 days ago

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Disclosure context

About direwolf

Direwolf is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2025 with primarily financial motivations, having targeted 71 known victims across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, with no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, though their targeting patterns indicate a focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and transportation/logistics sectors across Malaysia, the United States, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan. No major high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware demands have been publicly attributed to this group by CISA, FBI, or established security researchers such as Mandiant. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, their current operational status and long-term threat posture remain unclear, requiring continued monitoring by the cybersecurity community to establish a more comprehensive threat profile. The group has been linked to 96 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 27, 2025; most recent post August 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DIRE WOLF.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 10, 2026Statista GmbH listed by direwolfon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by direwolf

direwolf has been linked to 96 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 Professional Services sector, which has 14 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Statista GmbH is reported in Germany, a country with 383 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by direwolf means Statista GmbH 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on direwolf'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.