Was Abelsantosyasoc.com.ar hit by ransomware?

Abelsantosyasoc.com.ar was listed by the Stormous ransomware operation (Argentina), 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 Stormous ransomware group?

Stormous 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 Abelsantosyasoc.com.ar breach?

Stormous published data attributed to Abelsantosyasoc.com.ar. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Abel Santos y Asociados

listed as Abelsantosyasoc.com.ar · Claimed by Stormous · listed 2 years ago

29m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 2, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Stormous
Status: Data leaked
Country: Argentina
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Feb 2, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Abel Santos y Asociados is a regulatory and compliance consulting firm based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializing in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, biomedical, and food product registration and regulatory approval processes across Latin America. The firm offers services including GMP audits, clinical trial coordination, pharmacovigilance, and international dossier preparation with 27 years of operating history.

Industry: Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Regulatory Consulting
Address: Adolfo Alsina 971, Piso 5, CABA C1088AAA, Argentina
Founded: 1997

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from a regulatory consulting firm with access to sensitive pharmaceutical client data, clinical trial information, and proprietary product development documentation. Exposure threatens multiple healthcare clients' confidential regulatory filings and intellectual property.

Stormous claims to have breached Abel Santos y Asociados and exfiltrated data. The group's post indicates access to company information related to regulatory, technical, medical, marketing, and administrative aspects of pharmaceutical and healthcare clients.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Regulatory dossiers
Client pharmaceutical product data
Clinical trial documentation
GMP audit records
Administrative and business records

What the group claims

Our activities cover the regulatory, technical, medical, marketing, building and administrative management aspects of companies dedicated to the manufacturing and/or marketing of pharmaceutical, cosmetic, dental, biomedical, mass consumption, household health products, diagnostic reagents, nutritional/ dietary, phytotherapeutic and food.

Sources

Victim siteabelsantosyasoc.com.ar

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Stormous

Stormous is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2022, operating primarily with financial motivations and has claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 165 victims across multiple countries and sectors. The group's country of origin remains unclear from publicly documented sources, though their operational patterns suggest they may operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation from major security firms indicates the group employs common ransomware tactics, though specific details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively detailed in reports from CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers. Their targeting appears geographically diverse with a focus on Spain, the United States, France, UAE, and Brazil, while showing particular interest in technology, hospitality and tourism, government, and business services sectors, though many of their victims span unspecified industries. As of current reporting, Stormous appears to remain an active threat, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent families that receive extensive coverage from major security research organizations. The group has been linked to 245 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 22, 2022; most recent post July 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 2, 2024Abelsantosyasoc.com.ar listed by Stormouson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Stormous

Stormous has been linked to 245 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Abelsantosyasoc.com.ar is reported in Argentina, a country with 67 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Stormous means Abelsantosyasoc.com.ar 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 Stormous'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.