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D‑MAX Engineering, Inc.

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 3 hours ago

500 GB
Data size
12 files records
Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 24, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Spacebears
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Environmental Consulting
Listed on leak site
Sep 24, 2026
Data size
500 GB
Records
12 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

D‑MAX Engineering, Inc. is a San Diego-based environmental consulting firm founded in 1996 that specializes in storm water services and NPDES permit compliance for governmental agencies across Southern California. The firm serves 18 municipalities in San Diego, Orange, Imperial, and Riverside Counties and is a state-certified small business enterprise.

Industry
Environmental Consulting & Storm Water Management
Address
San Diego, California, United States
Founded
1996

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant data volume (500 GB) including PII of employees and clients, financial documents, and business communications from a firm handling sensitive government contracts and water quality data.

Spacebears claims to have exfiltrated 500 GB of data from D‑MAX Engineering, including personal information of employees and clients, financial documents, and communications/drawings.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee personal information
  • Client personal information
  • Financial documents
  • Communications
  • Technical drawings

What the group claims

San Diego-based environmental consulting firm specializing in storm water services for governmental agencies. Founded in 1996, completed numerous storm water projects for 18 municipalities in San Diego, Orange, Imperial, and Riverside Counties. State-certified small business enterprise (SBE).

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Tomix – Indústria de Equipamentos Agrícolas e Industriais, Lda. is a Portuguese manufacturer of crop-protection equipment, best known for agricultural sprayers, atomizers, dusters and related machinery. Founded in 1924 near Torres Vedras by Francisco Xavier Damião, it grew into a market leader in Portugal for plant-treatment equipment, including rotomoulded tanks and high-pressure washers. Since 1997 Tomix has been majority-owned by JOPER – Indústria de Equipamentos Agrícolas, S.A., and today it operates as part of the family-run JOPER Group alongside JOPER and Ribatejo. Together they supply complementary agricultural machinery for transport, soil tillage and crop treatment across Iberia and export markets
D‑MAX Engineering, Inc. is a San Diego-based environmental consulting firm specializing in storm water services, particularly for governmental agencies. Our mul…

Data the group says was taken

  • Personal information of employees and clients
  • Financial documents
  • Communications
  • Drawings

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for D‑MAX Engineering, Inc.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 223 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post September 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 24, 2026D‑MAX Engineering, Inc. listed by Spacebears on the group's public leak site
Data size
500 GB
Records
12 files

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 223 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 Environmental Consulting sector. Geographically, D‑MAX Engineering, Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means D‑MAX Engineering, Inc. 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 Spacebears'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.