Was G.R. Sponaugle hit by ransomware?

G.R. Sponaugle was listed by the unsafe 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 unsafe ransomware group?

unsafe 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 G.R. Sponaugle breach?

unsafe published data attributed to G.R. Sponaugle. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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G.R. Sponaugle

Claimed by Unsafe · listed 4 years ago

$22.00M

Est. revenue

company size proxy

43m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 21, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Unsafe
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Dec 21, 2022
Estimated revenue: $22.00M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

G.R. Sponaugle is a multi-generational electrical and HVAC mechanical contractor headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The company provides construction services including electrical systems, HVAC, and EV charging infrastructure across institutional, healthcare, and commercial projects. Notable clients include Penn State Health, Penn State University, Harrisburg University, Shippensburg Area School District, and Rite Aid Corporation.

Industry: Electrical & HVAC Mechanical Contracting
Address: 4391 Chambers Hill Rd, P.O. Box 4456, Harrisburg, PA 17111

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely threatened), indicating confirmed exfiltration. The company serves critical infrastructure clients including a 24/7 data center for Rite Aid and public school districts, and likely holds sensitive project, employee, and financial data. The absence of stated data size limits escalation to critical.

The ransomware group 'unsafe' claims to have attacked G.R. Sponaugle and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), with the leak post citing approximately $22 million in revenue. No specific data categories, ransom amount, or data size were stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company financial records
Business revenue data

What the group claims

country: US - revenue: 22.00M

Sources

Victim sitegrsponaugle.com

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About unsafe

The "unsafe" ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through ransomware deployment and extortion schemes. Based on limited public documentation, the group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. With 14 documented victims since their emergence, the group has demonstrated a focused targeting approach, primarily concentrating their attacks on manufacturing organizations, transportation and logistics companies, and government entities across the United States, Switzerland, and France. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group, likely due to their relatively recent emergence and smaller scale of operations compared to more established ransomware families. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active as of available reporting, though their limited public footprint makes definitive status assessment challenging without additional threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 21, 2022; most recent post July 4, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 21, 2022G.R. Sponaugle listed by unsafeon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by unsafe

unsafe has been linked to 16 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, G.R. Sponaugle is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by unsafe means G.R. Sponaugle 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 unsafe'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.