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D-MAX Engineering, Inc.

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 1 hour ago

Today
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 6, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Spacebears
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Environmental Consulting
Listed on leak site
Sep 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

D-MAX Engineering, Inc. is a San Diego-based environmental consulting firm specializing in storm water services, primarily for governmental agencies. Founded in 1996, the firm has completed numerous projects for 18 municipalities across Southern California counties and holds state certification as a small business enterprise (SBE).

Industry
Environmental Consulting & Storm Water Management
Address
San Diego, California, US
Founded
1996

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of employee and client personal information along with financial and business documents from a consulting firm serving government agencies. Scale and sensitivity of PII exposure to government contractor data warrants high severity.

The Spacebears group claims to have exfiltrated personal information of D-MAX Engineering's employees and clients, financial documents, and communications/drawings from the company.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee personal information
  • Client personal information
  • Financial documents
  • Communications
  • Drawings

What the group claims

A San Diego-based environmental consulting firm specializing in storm water services, particularly for governmental agencies. Includes environmental scientists, engineers, chemists, and biologists. Founded in 1996, completed numerous storm water projects for 18 municipalities in San Diego, Orange, Imperial, and Riverside Counties.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Do you trust your data to this company? 
This page contains a list of companies whose clients and business partners entrusted them with their confidential data, but these companies leaked data. The data may contain confidential information such as login credentials, intellectual property, personal and financial data, etc.
D‑MAX Engineering, Inc. is a San Diego-based environmental consulting firm specializing in storm water services, particularly for governmental agencies. Our multidisciplinary team includes environmental scientists, engineers, chemists, and biologists. Our team is experienced with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements in Southern California.Since 1996, when the company was founded, we have completed numerous storm water projects for 18 municipalities in San Diego, Orange, Imperial, and Riverside Counties. We have developed a reputation for practical solutions, cost-effectiveness, responsiveness, and flexibility. D-MAX is recognized across the region for our expertise in jurisdictional storm water program development and reporting, water quality monitoring, Industrial General Permit compliance assistance, development and con…

Data the group says was taken

  • personal information of employees and clients
  • financial documents
  • communications
  • drawings

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for D-MAX Engineering, Inc.

Sources

Source

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 220 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post September 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 6, 2026D-MAX Engineering, Inc. listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 220 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 Environmental Consulting sector. Geographically, D-MAX Engineering, Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means D-MAX Engineering, Inc. appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 Spacebears'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.