Ransomware victim disclosure

Hoy Construction

Claimed by nova · listed 7 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 22, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: nova
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: May 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hoy Construction is a 100% employee-owned commercial construction management firm based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, specializing in commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities. They offer design-build services, preconstruction services, and emphasize open-book transparency and cost/schedule management.

Industry: Commercial Construction Management
Address: Hampton Roads, VA
Founded: 1933

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data exfiltration claim with offer of proof samples, but no specific sensitive data categories confirmed and no proof files publicly visible in the post.

Nova claims to have exfiltrated data from Hoy Construction and is offering to provide samples to the company upon contact with their support department.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Project data
Client information
Financial records

What the group claims

Since 1933, Hoy Construction has specialized in commercial construction management for commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in Hampton Roads, VA. As a 100% employee-owned company, they emphasize a design-build approach, preconstruction services, and open-book transparency. Their experienced team collaborates with owners and architects to effectively manage costs and schedules while delivering high-quality, durable buildings. Hoy Construction is dedicated to building strong partnerships and ensuring accountability and communication throughout the construction process - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Sources

Leak posthttp://novadmrkp4vbk2padk5t6pbxolndceuc7hrcq4mjaoyed6nxsqiuzyyd.onion/hoy-construction

Source

Indexed 7 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 122 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post May 22, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 22, 2026Hoy Construction listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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.