Was Dynatrace hit by ransomware?

Dynatrace was listed by the xpl0itrs ransomware operation (Austria), 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 xpl0itrs ransomware group?

xpl0itrs 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 Dynatrace breach?

xpl0itrs published data attributed to Dynatrace. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Dynatrace

Claimed by Xpl0Itrs · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Xpl0Itrs
Status: Data leaked
Country: Austria
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Aug 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Dynatrace is an AI-powered observability platform that provides monitoring, analytics, and automation solutions for applications, infrastructure, security, and digital experiences. The company serves global enterprise customers and offers a unified data platform with real-time insights and autonomous operations capabilities.

Industry: Software & Cloud Services—AI Observability Platform

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, data inventory, or operational impact are described. The post is a bare listing with only a generic product description. No exfiltration or encryption claim is substantiated.

The xpl0itrs group claims to have compromised Dynatrace. The leak post provides minimal detail; no specific data exfiltration or encryption claim is articulated, and no proof materials are advertised in the truncated post.

low

What the group claims

AI observability platform

Sources

Victim sitedynatrace.com
Leak posthttp://2kieaq6jnwgrru62wwtxaafg35q6rzweg7y2xjfnbhvq5wd4eojqv6yd.onion/company/dynatrace/

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About xpl0itrs

xpl0itrs is a nascent ransomware group first observed in August 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting profile, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and low victim count. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin or affiliation with established threat actor ecosystems has been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time, and it remains unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed actor. Based on available victim telemetry, xpl0itrs has targeted organizations across Australia, Austria, and the United States, with a focus on the Technology and Retail and E-Commerce sectors, though the specific initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, and extortion tactics employed by the group have not yet been publicly detailed in open-source intelligence reporting. To date, the group has been linked to four known victims, and no high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly disclosed. As of the time of this writing, xpl0itrs appears to be an active but early-stage threat actor warranting monitoring as it may expand its targeting scope and operational tempo as it matures. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 15, 2026; most recent post August 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 15, 2026Dynatrace listed by xpl0itrson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by xpl0itrs

xpl0itrs has been linked to 5 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 Technology sector, which has 3,572 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dynatrace is reported in Austria, a country with 16 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by xpl0itrs means Dynatrace 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.at (Austria), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on xpl0itrs'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.