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Hoy Construction

Claimed by Nova · listed 2 months ago

10 GB
Data size
53d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 22, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Construction
Listed on leak site
May 22, 2026
Data size
10 GB

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.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Daegu University offers a range of educational services including online employment solutions, academic information systems, and various courses for students and faculty. The university focuses on providing resources for job preparation, including strategies for public and private sector employment, as well as civil service exam preparation. It aims to support students, prospective students, and faculty members in their academic and professional development. The institution is committed to fostering a collaborative and innovative learning environment - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.
Badan Pangan Nasional is an Indonesian government agency focused on ensuring food security and stability in the country. It provides services related to food supply, pricing, and consumption, while also addressing issues of food safety and nutrition. The agency aims to support national food sovereignty through various programs and initiatives, targeting local communities and stakeholders in the agricultural sector. Additionally, it engages in public information services to enhance transparency and accessibility regarding food-…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months 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 183 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 22, 2026Hoy Construction listed by novaon the group's public leak site
Data size
10 GB

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hoy Construction is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Hoy Construction 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 nova'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.