Was Magic-Aire hit by ransomware?

Magic-Aire was listed by the Blackbyte 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 Blackbyte ransomware group?

Blackbyte 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 Magic-Aire breach?

Blackbyte published data attributed to Magic-Aire. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Magic-Aire

Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 17, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blackbyte
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: May 17, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Magic-Aire is an independent U.S.-based manufacturer of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) components, including fan coils, air handlers, unit ventilators, and hydronic/DX air supply products. The company serves commercial, institutional, and residential markets and is known for on-time delivery and low warranty rates. Magic-Aire was recently acquired by Kingspan to strengthen its manufacturing capability and support growth.

Industry: HVAC Equipment Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by BlackByte (data_published status confirmed), indicating confirmed exfiltration of business data from a manufacturing company. While no regulated PII at scale or medical/government data is explicitly confirmed, the published-data status elevates this above medium; absence of detailed inventory prevents a critical rating.

BlackByte claims to have published data obtained from Magic-Aire, indicating exfiltration of company data with the disclosure status marked as data_published. No specific ransom amount or data volume has been stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Operational/manufacturing records
Potentially employee information
Potentially customer/partner records

What the group claims

Magic Aire is an independent Manufacturer of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) components, fan coils, air handlers and unit ventilators. Our Company sets the industry benchmarks for on-time delivery, ease of doing business and lowest warranty rates.

Sources

Victim sitemagicaire.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blackbyte

BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in October 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group is suspected to operate from Russia or former Soviet states based on their use of Russian-language forums and avoidance of targeting organizations in Commonwealth of Independent States countries, though they maintain no confirmed links to other established ransomware families. BlackByte operators typically gain initial access through vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of remote desktop protocol (RDP) services, employing tools such as Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and data exfiltration before deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses AES-256 encryption with RSA-2048 key protection. The group has demonstrated particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors, with the FBI and CISA issuing joint advisories in February 2022 highlighting attacks against organizations in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and education sectors, including notable incidents affecting San Francisco's transportation authority and multiple healthcare systems across the United States. BlackByte remains active as of 2024, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their leak site for publishing stolen data from victims who refuse to pay ransoms. The group has been linked to 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 4, 2021; most recent post July 30, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 17, 2023Magic-Aire listed by Blackbyteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blackbyte

Blackbyte has been linked to 147 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 Energy & Utilities sector, which has 163 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Magic-Aire is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blackbyte means Magic-Aire 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 Blackbyte'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.