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Comisión Municipal de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado de Victoria

Claimed by Qilin · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Qilin
Status
Data leaked
Country
Mexico
Sector
Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

COMAPA Victoria is a decentralized public agency of the municipal administration of Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It provides water distribution and sewerage services to residents, operating customer service facilities and handling billing, account changes, and water service contracting.

Industry
Water Supply & Sewerage
Address
Blvd. Praxedis Balboa #1300, Col. Miguel Hidalgo, Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Public utility operator in Mexico; data_published status suggests confirmed exfiltration, but absence of leak post detail and no visible proof inventory in provided material prevents high/critical assessment. Municipal water utility compromise carries operational risk and potential PII exposure (customer records), warranting medium severity.

Qilin claims to have compromised COMAPA Victoria. No leak post content was provided; the disclosed status indicates data has been published, but specific details on encryption, exfiltration scope, or data categories are unavailable from the source material.

medium

What the group claims

N/A

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Comisión Municipal de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado de Victoria

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 2,394 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post October 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2026Comisión Municipal de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado de Victoria listed by Qilin on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Qilin

Qilin has been linked to 2,394 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 & Utilities sector, which has 169 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Comisión Municipal de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado de Victoria is reported in Mexico, a country with 71 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Qilin means Comisión Municipal de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado de Victoria 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, CERT-MX (Mexico), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Qilin'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.