Disclosure context

About ALP-001

ALP-001 is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with limited documented activity, having targeted only five known victims to date with a focus on financially motivated cybercrime. Due to the group's recent emergence and low victim count, their country of origin, operational structure, and potential affiliations remain unknown with no public documentation from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their organizational structure. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors have not been publicly analyzed or reported by reputable security researchers, though their targeting pattern suggests a preference for technology and manufacturing sectors across developed nations including the United States, Japan, China, France, and Italy. No notable campaigns, high-profile incidents, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented for this group, and no law enforcement actions have been reported against ALP-001. The group's current operational status remains unclear due to limited public intelligence and their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 17 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2026; most recent post April 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 21, 2026hikvision.com listed by ALP-001on the group's public leak site

Data size: 19.9 TB
Ransom demanded: $13.1B

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, hikvision.com is reported in China, a country with 29 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Hikvision

listed as hikvision.com · Claimed by ALP-001 · listed 2 months ago

19.9 TB

Data size

$13.1B

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 21, 2026
Ransom deadline
Mar 30, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: ALP-001
Status: Data leaked
Country: China
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 21, 2026
Ransom deadline: Mar 30, 2026
Data size: 19.9 TB
Ransom demanded: $13.1B
Estimated revenue: $13.1B

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hikvision (Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer and the world's largest supplier of video surveillance products and solutions, including IP cameras, DVRs, NVRs, and AI-based security systems. Headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the company operates globally with revenues reported at approximately $13 billion and tens of thousands of employees worldwide. Its products are deployed across government, enterprise, transportation, and consumer sectors in over 150 countries.

Industry: Video Surveillance & Security Equipment Manufacturing
Address: No. 555 Qianmo Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Employees: 40000+
Founded: 2001

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 19.9 TB of data from the world's largest surveillance equipment manufacturer has been claimed as fully exfiltrated and published. Given Hikvision's scale, government/enterprise customer base, and the sheer volume of data, this likely encompasses regulated PII, proprietary technology, and sensitive business data at a massive scale, meeting the critical threshold.

The group ALP-001 claims to have exfiltrated 19.9 TB of data from Hikvision, with all data reportedly ready for publication as of the disclosed deadline of 2026-03-30. The post indicates a data-published status, suggesting the stolen data has been or is being released, though specific data categories are not enumerated in the truncated post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate data (19.9 TB)
Potentially proprietary product/R&D files
Potentially customer records
Potentially employee records
Potentially financial records

What the group claims

Country: China Revenue: $13.1 Billion Storage: 19.9 TB Ready: 19.9 TB Deadline: 2026-03-30 00:20:04

Sources

Victim sitehikvision.com
Leak posthttp://b4riuxx7ypobdptctf6lyfcvgi6vn74iurzdh4kn2agbk7472dvywgyd.onion#hikvision.com

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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