Was Transtec SAS hit by ransomware?

Transtec SAS was listed by the Orca ransomware operation (Colombia), 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 Orca ransomware group?

Orca 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 Transtec SAS breach?

Orca published data attributed to Transtec SAS. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Transtec SAS

Claimed by Orca · listed 2 years ago

21m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 4, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Orca
Status: Data leaked
Country: Colombia
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Oct 4, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Transtec SAS is a Colombian automotive components manufacturer based in Bogotá that has operated for approximately 20 years. They design, develop, and manufacture automotive parts including roof hatches, ventilation systems, and electrical components for the automotive sector, operating under international standards.

Industry: Automotive Components Manufacturing
Address: Tv 56ª 75-70, Bogotá, Colombia
Founded: 2005

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor with confirmed disclosure status, indicating material breach. However, no specific sensitive data categories (PII at scale, financial records, trade secrets) are explicitly confirmed in the available post excerpt, and no proof file count is stated.

The Orca group claims to have compromised Transtec SAS and published data. The specific nature of the exfiltration (encryption, data theft, or both) and exact data scope are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Customer information
Technical designs
Operational data

What the group claims

Transtec SAS is a company that operates in the Commercial Printing industry.Addi...

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Orca

Orca is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in September 2024, appearing to be financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational behavior. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation from major security researchers to definitively establish their country of origin or whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and government agencies have not yet published detailed technical analyses of their operations. The group has reportedly compromised at least four known victims across a geographically diverse range including Colombia, China, Austria, and Tennessee, with their attacks primarily targeting organizations in the technology, manufacturing, and transportation/logistics sectors. Given the group's recent emergence in September 2024 and lack of extensive public reporting, Orca appears to be in the early stages of their operations and remains active, though comprehensive threat intelligence on their capabilities and impact is still developing within the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 16, 2024; most recent post April 27, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 4, 2024Transtec SAS listed by Orcaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Orca

Orca has been linked to 5 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Transtec SAS is reported in Colombia, a country with 66 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Orca means Transtec SAS 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Orca'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.