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Hayward Holdings, Inc.

listed as Hayward Holdings · Claimed by Falcon · listed 16 days ago

16d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 31, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Falcon
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hayward Holdings is a publicly traded manufacturer and distributor of pool and spa equipment, listed on the NYSE under ticker HAYW. The company produces equipment and supplies for the swimming pool and spa industries.

Industry
Pool & Spa Equipment Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of large-scale PII (1M+ customer and business records), sensitive financial data, privileged credentials, and strategic business information from a publicly traded company. Data has been published. Scale and sensitivity of regulated personal data elevates to critical.

Falcon claims to have exfiltrated approximately 848 GB of data from Hayward Holdings, including Salesforce databases, over 1 million business and customer records with PII, financial records, personnel files, IT infrastructure details, and privileged credentials. The group has published this data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Salesforce database
  • Business records (1M+)
  • Customer records with PII (1M+)
  • Distributor pricing lists
  • Margin structures
  • Financial records
  • P&L statements
  • Accounting ledgers
  • Personnel files
  • IT infrastructure blueprints
  • Privileged account credentials
  • Strategic board materials

What the group claims

Pool & spa equipment · NYSE: HAYW - Our 848 GB extraction includes your Salesforce, 1+ million of each business and customer records with PII, distributor pricing lists, margin structures, detailed financial records, P&L statements, accounting ledgers, extensive personnel files, IT infrastructure blueprints, privileged account credentials, strategic board preparation materials and much more.

Sources

Source

Indexed 16 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Falcon

Falcon is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, though limited public documentation exists given the group's recent emergence and low victim count. Based on available data, the group has claimed or been attributed to at least two known victims, with targeting concentrated in the United States across the manufacturing and healthcare sectors. Due to the group's nascent operational history and minimal coverage by major threat intelligence sources such as CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or comparable research organizations, detailed technical attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS infrastructure, specific initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, or extortion tactics cannot be responsibly stated at this time. The targeting of manufacturing and healthcare verticals is consistent with broader ransomware ecosystem trends, where threat actors prioritize sectors with low tolerance for operational downtime and heightened incentive to pay ransoms quickly. Falcon's current operational status remains unclear, and the group should be considered an emerging or low-visibility threat warranting continued monitoring as its activity profile develops. The group has been linked to 3 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 30, 2026; most recent post August 31, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 31, 2026Hayward Holdings listed by Falcon on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Falcon

Falcon has been linked to 3 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Falcon dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hayward Holdings is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Falcon means Hayward Holdings 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 Falcon'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.