Was Trans-Northern Pipelines hit by ransomware?

Trans-Northern Pipelines was listed by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation (Canada), 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 ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group?

ALPHV/BlackCat 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 Trans-Northern Pipelines breach?

ALPHV/BlackCat published data attributed to Trans-Northern Pipelines. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc.

listed as Trans-Northern Pipelines · Claimed by ALPHV/BlackCat · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 13, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: ALPHV/BlackCat
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Feb 13, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc. (TNPI) is a regulated pipeline operator in Canada, established in 1949, with over 60 years of operational history. The company operates two main corridor systems: Edmonton to Calgary in central Alberta, and southeastern Ontario to Montreal, transporting refined petroleum products including gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel, and heating fuel to businesses and consumers.

Industry: Petroleum Pipeline Transportation
Founded: 1949

Attack summary

Severity: high — Critical infrastructure operator (regulated pipeline company) in the energy sector; data published by the group; operational disruption potential to petroleum product supply chain affecting multiple provinces. Lack of specific data details prevents 'critical' classification but confirmed breach of essential infrastructure warrants 'high'.

ALPHV claims to have compromised Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc. and has published data from the incident. The leak post does not specify whether encryption occurred, exfiltration, or both, nor does it detail which data categories were accessed.

high

What the group claims

Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc. (TNPI) operates regulated pipelines in central Alberta from Edmonton to Calgary, and in the south eastern Ontario to Montreal corridor, delivering refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel and heating fuel used by businesses and consumers. TNPI was incorporated in 1949, and has been operating pipelines for more than 60 years. Our business is built on four strategic pillars which we work to uphold every day: Personal and Process Safety, Environmental Sustainability, Reliability and People. Our team’s decades of experience combined with a focus on our core values – safe, respectful, professional, trustworthy, results focused, decisive – guides our daily activities and business operations.

Sources

Victim sitetnpi.ca/
Leak posthttp://alphvuzxyxv6ylumd2ngp46xzq3pw6zflomrghvxeuks6kklberrbmyd.onion/22698cf8-7728-40e7-8bb9-50dfe33cbf4f

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ALPHV/BlackCat

ALPHV, also known as BlackCat or Noberus, is a sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in November 2021 and quickly became one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally, driven by financial motivations and responsible for compromising over 930 victims worldwide. The group is believed to be operated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals and represents an evolution of the BlackMatter ransomware operation, operating under a RaaS model that recruits experienced affiliates from other disbanded ransomware groups. ALPHV employs a multi-faceted attack methodology utilizing various initial access vectors including compromised Remote Desktop Protocol credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, followed by deployment of their Rust-based ransomware payload that supports both Windows and Linux environments, while consistently employing double extortion tactics that involve data theft prior to encryption and threats to publish stolen information on their leak site. Notable campaigns include high-profile attacks against critical infrastructure and major corporations across healthcare, finance, and energy sectors, with the group demanding ransoms ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, prompting the FBI and CISA to issue multiple advisories warning of their targeting of critical infrastructure organizations. As of early 2024, ALPHV remains active despite ongoing law enforcement efforts, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their position as one of the most significant ransomware threats globally. The group has been linked to 1,662 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post March 3, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: ALPHV, BlackCat, Noberus.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 13, 2024Trans-Northern Pipelines listed by ALPHV/BlackCaton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by ALPHV/BlackCat

ALPHV/BlackCat has been linked to 1,662 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full ALPHV/BlackCat dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Trans-Northern Pipelines is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ALPHV/BlackCat means Trans-Northern Pipelines 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on ALPHV/BlackCat'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.