Was Republic Services hit by ransomware?

Republic Services was listed by the Hunters International ransomware operation (United States), 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 Hunters International ransomware group?

Hunters International 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 Republic Services breach?

Hunters International published data attributed to Republic Services. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Republic Services

Claimed by Hunters International · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 3, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hunters International
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 3, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Republic Services, Inc. is one of the largest providers of non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, recycling, and environmental services in the United States. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, the company serves commercial, industrial, municipal, and residential customers across multiple sectors including housing, education, and healthcare. It operates hundreds of collection operations, transfer stations, recycling centers, and landfills nationwide.

Industry: Waste Management & Recycling Services
Address: 18500 N Allied Way, Phoenix, Arizona 85054, United States
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 1998

Attack summary

Severity: high — Republic Services is a large-scale critical infrastructure-adjacent company (waste management serving healthcare, municipalities, and residential customers). Data has been published by the group, confirming exfiltration of significant business data. The breadth of customer types — including healthcare and municipal — raises the likelihood of regulated PII exposure, though specific data categories are not confirmed in the post.

Hunters International claims to have exfiltrated data from Republic Services and has published the data, though the specific data types and volume are not detailed in the post. The disclosure status is marked as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Customer records
Operational data
Potentially regulated/sensitive customer information (municipal, healthcare, residential)

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Republic Services, Inc. is a leading firm in recycling and non-hazardous solid waste services in the United States. Founded in 1998 and based in Phoenix, Arizona, the company provides waste collection, transfer, evacuation, recycling, and landfill services. It serves commercial, industrial, municipal, and residential customers, catering to multiple sectors including housing, education, and healthcare.

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Hunters International

Hunters International is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on publicly available victim data, Hunters International has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services, technology, and manufacturing sectors, with their attacks primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. With 388 documented victims since their emergence, the group has shown consistent activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reports. As of current reporting, Hunters International appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or operational changes reported by major cybersecurity agencies. The group has been linked to 695 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 20, 2023; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Hunters.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 3, 2025Republic Services listed by Hunters Internationalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Hunters International

Hunters International has been linked to 695 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Republic Services is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hunters International means Republic Services 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Hunters International'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.