Was Unknown (Founded 1999, Air-Cooled Chillers) hit by ransomware?

Unknown (Founded 1999, Air-Cooled Chillers) was listed by the safepay ransomware operation as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the safepay ransomware group?

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Unknown (Founded 1999, Air-Cooled Chillers)

Claimed by Safepay · listed 21 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedAug 23, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Manufacturing/HVAC
Listed on leak site: Aug 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Founded in 1999, the company specializes in the design, engineering, and production of air-cooled water chillers, heat pump chillers, and related hydronic systems. The company operates in the industrial HVAC equipment sector.

Industry: HVAC Equipment Manufacturing
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: low — Company is listed as a victim with no proof files, screenshots, or data samples provided. No exfiltration or encryption details are disclosed. No operational impact is stated.

SafePay ransomware group lists the company as a victim. No details are provided in the leak post regarding what data was accessed, encrypted, or exfiltrated, or what specific files were compromised.

low

What the group claims

Founded in 1999, the company specializes in the design, engineering, and production of air-cooled water chillers, heat pump chillers, and hydronic systems.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

# SafePay ransomware has never provided and does not provide the RaaS
Headquartered in Albal, Valencia, the family-owned company traces its origins to three generations of livestock farming. What began as a … 
Headquartered in Alfamén, Zaragoza, Spain, the company has been manufacturing metal shelving since 1964 and has become one of Europe's … 
Headquartered in Signa, Florence, Italy, the company was founded in 2006 and has grown into one of Italy's established suppliers … 
Headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the company has served customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware for several decades. Although … 
The firm focuses on practice areas including personal injury, wrongful death, workplace harassment, business litigation, civil settlements, and environmental litigation. … 
Founded in 1999, the company specializes in the design, engineering, and production of air-cooled water chillers, heat pump chillers, hydronic … 
Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Friedberg, Bavaria, the company has more than four decades of experience developing specialized software … 
The company specializes in metal recycling, concrete and asphalt recycling, aggregate …

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Unknown (Founded 1999, Air-Cooled Chillers)

Sources

Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion

Source

Indexed 21 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 693 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post August 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 23, 2026Unknown (Founded 1999, Air-Cooled Chillers) listed by safepayon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 693 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 Manufacturing/HVAC sector.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means Unknown (Founded 1999, Air-Cooled Chillers) appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 safepay'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.