Was Megacentro hit by ransomware?

Megacentro was listed by the Hunters International ransomware operation (Chile), 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 Hunters International ransomware group?

Hunters International 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 Megacentro breach?

Hunters International published data attributed to Megacentro. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Megacentro

Claimed by Hunters International · listed 1 year ago

15m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 20, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hunters International
Status: Data leaked
Country: Chile
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Megacentro is a Chilean retail company operating under the domain megacentro.cl. Based on the name and domain, it appears to be a major shopping center or retail chain in Chile.

Industry: Retail & Commerce

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of unspecified data from a retail company; no proof files or screenshots are evident in the post summary, and no regulated data categories are explicitly identified, but the disclosure status is 'data_published' indicating public release.

The hunters group claims to have exfiltrated data from Megacentro. No encryption of systems is mentioned, indicating a data-theft-only attack.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Customer data

What the group claims

Exfiltraded data : yes - Encrypted data : no

Sources

Victim sitemegacentro.cl
Leak posthttps://hunters55rdxciehoqzwv7vgyv6nt37tbwax2reroyzxhou7my5ejyid.onion/companies/9630181167

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Hunters International

Hunters International is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on publicly available victim data, Hunters International has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services, technology, and manufacturing sectors, with their attacks primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. With 388 documented victims since their emergence, the group has shown consistent activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reports. As of current reporting, Hunters International appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or operational changes reported by major cybersecurity agencies. The group has been linked to 695 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 20, 2023; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Hunters.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 20, 2025Megacentro listed by Hunters Internationalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Hunters International

Hunters International has been linked to 695 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Hunters International dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Megacentro is reported in Chile, a country with 7 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hunters International means Megacentro 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 Hunters International'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.