Was esprinet.com hit by ransomware?

esprinet.com was listed by the ALP-001 ransomware operation (Italy), 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 ALP-001 ransomware group?

ALP-001 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 esprinet.com breach?

ALP-001 published data attributed to esprinet.com (~1.2 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Esprinet S.p.A.

listed as esprinet.com · Claimed by ALP-001 · listed 4 months ago

1.2 TB

Data size

$4.5B

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 25, 2026
Ransom deadlineApr 4, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: ALP-001
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 25, 2026
Ransom deadline: Apr 4, 2026
Data size: 1.2 TB
Ransom demanded: $4.5B
Estimated revenue: $4.5B

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Esprinet S.p.A. (Borsa Italiana: PRT) is a publicly listed Italian company and the leading wholesale distributor of IT products and consumer electronics in Italy and Spain. The company serves approximately 40,000 reseller customers and supplies products from around 600 brands. It operates across Southern Europe and is one of the largest technology distributors in the region by revenue.

Industry: IT & Consumer Electronics Wholesale Distribution
Address: Via Energy Park 20, 20871 Vimercate (MB), Italy
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1990

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 1.2 TB of data reportedly exfiltrated and published from a publicly listed company with ~40,000 business customers; likely contains large-scale PII, commercial contracts, financial data, and partner records, meeting the threshold for critical due to scale, public-company status, and confirmed data publication.

The group ALP-001 claims to have exfiltrated approximately 1.2 TB of data from Esprinet and has published the data, with a stated deadline of 4 April 2026. The post does not explicitly describe encryption but the disclosed status indicates data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business and financial records
Reseller/customer data (~40,000 resellers)
Supplier and brand partner information (~600 brands)
Internal corporate documents
Potentially stock exchange-relevant financial data

What the group claims

Country: italy Revenue: $4.5 billion Storage: 1.2TB Description: Esprinet (Italian Stock Exchange: PRT) is engaged in the wholesale distribution of IT and consumer electronics in Italy and Spain, with ~40.000 resellers customers served and 600 brands supplied. Deadline: 2026-04-04 18:12:21

Sources

Victim siteesprinet.com
Leak posthttp://b4riuxx7ypobdptctf6lyfcvgi6vn74iurzdh4kn2agbk7472dvywgyd.onion#esprinet.com

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About ALP-001

ALP-001 is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with limited documented activity, having targeted only five known victims to date with a focus on financially motivated cybercrime. Due to the group's recent emergence and low victim count, their country of origin, operational structure, and potential affiliations remain unknown with no public documentation from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their organizational structure. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors have not been publicly analyzed or reported by reputable security researchers, though their targeting pattern suggests a preference for technology and manufacturing sectors across developed nations including the United States, Japan, China, France, and Italy. No notable campaigns, high-profile incidents, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented for this group, and no law enforcement actions have been reported against ALP-001. The group's current operational status remains unclear due to limited public intelligence and their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 17 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2026; most recent post April 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 25, 2026esprinet.com listed by ALP-001on the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.2 TB
Ransom demanded: $4.5B

Other recent disclosures by ALP-001

ALP-001 has been linked to 17 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full ALP-001 dossier →

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, esprinet.com is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ALP-001 means esprinet.com 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on ALP-001'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.