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Western New York Energy

Claimed by INC Ransom · listed 4 months ago

100 GB
Data size
4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 3, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
INC Ransom
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Energy
Listed on leak site
Feb 3, 2026
Data size
100 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Western New York Energy LLC (wnyenergy.com) is a regional ethanol producer and renewable energy company based in Medina, New York. The company is described as one of the Northeast's key ethanol producers, operating within the renewable fuels sector. It maintains relationships with clients, counterparties, and investors and produces technical engineering assets alongside standard commercial operations.

Industry
Ethanol Production & Renewable Energy
Address
Medina, New York, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — 100 GB of confirmed exfiltrated and published business-critical data including financial records, NDAs, engineering schematics, and client/counterparty information represents significant exposure of sensitive proprietary and commercial data. While not explicitly medical or government data, the scale, publication status, and inclusion of regulated commercial and financial materials — alongside engineering files for energy infrastructure — elevate this to high severity.

INC Ransom claims to have exfiltrated approximately 100 GB of data from Western New York Energy LLC, encompassing confidential internal documents, financial records, NDAs, commercial contracts, engineering schematics, investor materials, and client/counterparty data. The group states the data has been published and describes the archive as authentic, recent, and unaltered.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Confidential internal documents
  • Client and counterparty data
  • Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
  • Financial records and reports
  • Operational documentation and procedures
  • Investor-related materials and presentations
  • Corporate governance documents
  • Commercial contracts and business agreements
  • Technical drawings, schematics, and engineering files

What the group claims

Western New York Energy LLC – Major Data Breach Announcement Western New York Energy LLC (wnyenergy.com), a leading regional ethanol producer and renewable energy company based in Medina, New York, has suffered a significant data compromise. Total volume of obtained data: ≈100 GB The leaked archive contains highly sensitive and business-critical materials, including: Confidential internal documents Client and counterparty data Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) Financial records and reports Operational documentation and procedures Investor-related materials and presentations Corporate governance documents Commercial contracts and business agreements Technical drawings, schematics, and engineering files …and a substantial amount of other proprietary and strategically important information that is vital to the company’s operations, partnerships, and competitive position. This dataset provides deep insight into the internal workings, financial structure, client relationships, and strategic planning of one of the Northeast’s key ethanol producers. The information is authentic, recent, and untouched.

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About INC Ransom

INC Ransom is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and has since compromised 832 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal Ransomware-as-a-Service model. While detailed attack methodologies for INC Ransom have not been extensively documented by major security firms, their victim distribution indicates they employ broad-spectrum targeting approaches that have successfully penetrated healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting English-speaking countries, with the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom representing their primary victim demographics, alongside significant activity in Germany and Australia. Notable campaigns or high-profile attacks by INC Ransom have not been prominently featured in major threat intelligence publications from CISA, FBI, or leading security researchers, suggesting they may operate with a lower public profile despite their substantial victim count. INC Ransom remains active as of current intelligence assessments, with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 853 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post June 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 3, 2026Western New York Energy listed by INC Ransomon the group's public leak site
Data size
100 GB

Other recent disclosures by INC Ransom

INC Ransom has been linked to 853 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 Energy sector, which has 375 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Western New York Energy is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by INC Ransom means Western New York Energy 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 INC Ransom'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.