Was chfindustries.com hit by ransomware?

chfindustries.com was listed by the Cactus ransomware operation (United States), 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 Cactus ransomware group?

Cactus 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 chfindustries.com breach?

Cactus published data attributed to chfindustries.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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CHF Industries

listed as chfindustries.com · Claimed by Cactus · listed 1 year ago

$253.8M

Ransom

demanded

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 24, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Cactus
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Feb 24, 2025
Ransom demanded: $253.8M
Estimated revenue: $253.8M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CHF Industries is a family-run household goods company founded in 2002, headquartered in New York City. The company curates and markets home-related brands and products, emphasizing work-life balance, charitable initiatives, and responsible sourcing practices. With $253.8M in revenue, it operates as a multi-brand portfolio in the consumer home goods sector.

Industry: Household Goods & Home Products
Address: 1 Park Ave Fl 9, New York City, New York, 10016, United States
Founded: 2002

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive data at scale including PII (passport scans, employee personal documents), financial records, proprietary manufacturing designs, and customer data. Large revenue company ($253.8M) with significant operational and reputational impact. Data published with multiple proof files demonstrating access.

Cactus ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated and encrypted CHF Industries' data. The group has published evidence including personal identifiable information, corporate confidential documents, contracts, production designs, shipping data, employee personal documents, financial records, and customer documentation.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal identifiable information (PII)
Passport scans and employee personal documents
Corporate confidential documents and contracts
Production documentation, drawings, and designs
Shipping and logistics data
Financial records and data
Customer documentation
Corporate correspondence
Certified manufacturing partner agreements

The group's post references roughly 4 proof images proof files.

What the group claims

Household Goods. “Family-run since 2002, CHF is, at its heart, a community of people with a shared passion for enhancing home life. The company weaves that perspective into every aspect of business, from encouraging work-life balance for employees to creating workplace initiatives and charitable giving programs to help foster responsible working conditions, fair compensation, respect for human rights, and environmental stewardship.” Website: <a href="https://www.chfindustries.com/">https://www.chfindustries.com/</a> Revenue : $253.8M Address: 1 Park Ave Fl 9, New York City, New York, 10016, United States Phone Number: (212) 951-7800 Download link #1: <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/CHFINDUSTRIES/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/CHFINDUSTRIES/PROOF/</a> Mirror: <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/CHFINDUSTRIES/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/CHFINDUSTRIES/PROOF/</a> DATA DESCRIPTIONS: Personal identifiable information, corporate confidential documents, contracts\agreements, production docs\drawings\designs, shipping data, employees personal documents, financial data, customer docs, corporate correspondence, etc.<img src="/uploads/passport_scan_89bc13afc8.png" alt="passport_scan.png"><img src="/uploads/Docs_DI_61000_Nishat_9756836dd9.png" alt="Docs_DI61000_Nishat.png"><img src="/uploads/CONFIDENTIAL_Ci_CLO_Certified_Manufacturing_Partners_08_2024_eff52d31fe.png" alt="CONFIDENTIAL CiCLO Certified Manufacturing Partners 08_2024.png"><img src="/uploads/CHF_Confidentiality_Agreement_f9bbdf919a.png" alt="CHF Confidentiality Agreement.png"><img src="/uploads/2025_

Sources

Victim sitechfindustries.com
Leak posthttps://cactusbloguuodvqjmnzlwetjlpj6aggc6iocwhuupb47laukux7ckid.onion/posts/CHFINDUSTRIES

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Cactus

**Overview:** Cactus is a ransomware group that emerged in July 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid expansion, compromising 552 known victims within its first year of operation. **Origin & Affiliation:** Limited public information exists regarding Cactus's country of origin or specific affiliations with other ransomware groups, though their targeting patterns and operational methods suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. **Attack Methodology:** Cactus ransomware operators employ double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victim systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met. The group appears to focus on gaining initial access through common vectors such as compromised credentials and vulnerable internet-facing applications, followed by lateral movement and data exfiltration prior to deployment of their encryption payload. **Notable Campaigns:** While specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented by major security agencies, the group's victim count of 552 organizations within approximately one year indicates sustained and aggressive targeting campaigns across North America and Europe. Their focus on manufacturing and business services sectors suggests deliberate targeting of organizations likely to pay ransoms due to operational dependencies. **Current Status:** Cactus remains an active ransomware threat as of late 2024, continuing to target organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and European countries with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed dissolution of their operations. The group has been linked to 552 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 20, 2023; most recent post March 21, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 24, 2025chfindustries.com listed by Cactuson the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $253.8M

Other recent disclosures by Cactus

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, chfindustries.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cactus means chfindustries.com 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 Cactus'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.