Disclosure context

About stormous

Stormous is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating primarily with financial motivations and has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 165 victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's country of origin remains unclear from publicly documented sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation from major security firms indicates the group employs common ransomware tactics, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively detailed in reports from CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers. Their targeting appears geographically diverse with a focus on Spain, the United States, France, UAE, and Brazil, while showing particular interest in technology, hospitality and tourism, government, and business services sectors, though many of their victims span unspecified industries. As of current reporting, Stormous appears to remain an active threat, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent families that receive extensive coverage from major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 220 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 22, 2022; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 2, 2026crystalhotels listed by stormouson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 159 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, crystalhotels is reported in Turkey, a country with 7 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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crystalhotels

Claimed by stormous · listed 19 days ago

18d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 2, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: stormous
Status: Data leaked
Country: Turkey
Sector: Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site: May 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Crystal Hotels is a hospitality company operating in Turkey, active in the hotel and tourism sector. Based on the victim name and sector classification, the company manages hotel properties and handles guest bookings, communications, and customer service operations. No public website content was available to confirm further operational details or scale.

Industry: Hospitality & Hotel Management

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of guest PII (full names, email addresses) combined with internal business communications and booking records constitutes significant data exposure; while not at the scale of regulated medical or financial data, the combination of personal guest data and internal operational data warrants a high severity rating.

The Stormous ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated internal data from Crystal Hotels, including guest personal information, internal communications, and booking records. The data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration without a stated ransom.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Full names of hotel guests
Email addresses (internal and external)
Customer complaints and feedback content
Booking or reference numbers
Internal hotel communication data

What the group claims

Full names of hotel guests, Email addresses (internal and external), Customer complaints and feedback content, Booking or reference numbers, Internal hotel communication data...

Source

Indexed 19 days ago

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