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Hanwha

Claimed by Emperador · listed 2 days ago

12GB
Data size
2d
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 29, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Emperador
Status
Listed for ransom
Sector
Energy / Renewable Energy
Listed on leak site
Aug 29, 2026
Data size
12GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hanwha is a conglomerate with renewable energy operations, including solar photovoltaic (PV) project development and investment. The company manages multiple utility-scale solar projects in development or financing phases.

Industry
Renewable Energy / Solar Power

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business-sensitive data including financial models, PPAs, and engineering designs for multiple renewable energy projects. Exposure of such data to competitors or counterparties could disrupt project financing, negotiations, and competitive positioning. PII is mentioned but scale is unclear.

Emperor group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 12GB of data from four solar PV projects (Bonanza Peak, Boulder Solar III, Obreron Portfolio, Project Sprout) associated with Hanwha's investment and financing activities. The group asserts possession of project financials, power purchase agreements, and engineering designs.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)
  • Financial models
  • Interconnection agreements
  • Engineering designs
  • Personal identifiable information
  • Budgets and financial reports

What the group claims

Hanwha is involved in 4 photovoltaic (PV) projects seeking investment/financing: Bonanza Peak (3GB), Boulder Solar III (0.7GB), Obreron Portfolio (4.8GB), and Project Sprout (3.7GB). Approximately 12GB of sensitive data was extracted relating to these projects.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
The data contains really sensitive information from 4 PV projects looking for investment/financing of Hanwha.
We extracted around 12GB of highly sensitive information relating to the following projects:
- Bonanza Peak (3GB)- Boulder Solar III (0.7GB)- Obreron Portfolio (4.8GB)- Project Sprout (3.7GB)
In the data we found highly sensitive information including:
- PPAs- Financial models- Interconnection agreements- Engineering designs of the assets- Personal identifiable information- Sensitive reports, budgets, financial information
Reach out to prevent the leak.
Cost of litigation from counterparties for breach of confidentiality is way higher. Commercially, good luck negotiating after your practices and contracts are leak. Good luck looking for financing/investment for these assets with the data leaked.

Data the group says was taken

  • PPAs
  • financial models
  • interconnection agreements
  • engineering designs
  • personally identifiable information
  • reports
  • budgets
  • financial information

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Hanwha

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About emperador

Emperador is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, though its limited operational history makes comprehensive attribution difficult at this time. Based on available data, the group has recorded at least one confirmed victim, with targeting concentrated in the Philippines and a demonstrated focus on the Government and Defense sector, suggesting either opportunistic targeting or a deliberate interest in sensitive public-sector data. Specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and tooling have not been publicly documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources as of this profile's compilation, and no affiliation with known ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems or established threat actor clusters has been formally established. No notable high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions have been publicly attributed to this group, which is consistent with its nascent operational timeline and minimal victim count. Given its very recent emergence and limited observed activity, Emperador should be considered an emerging and uncharacterized threat requiring continued monitoring, particularly by organizations operating within Philippine government and defense environments. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 12, 2026; most recent post August 31, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 29, 2026Hanwha listed by emperadoron the group's public leak site
Data size
12GB

Other recent disclosures by emperador

emperador has been linked to 18 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full emperador dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy / Renewable Energy sector.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by emperador means Hanwha 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 emperador'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.