Was Sutherland Packaging hit by ransomware?

Sutherland Packaging was listed by the Dark Project ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 Dark Project ransomware group?

Dark Project 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 Sutherland Packaging breach?

Dark Project published data attributed to Sutherland Packaging. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Sutherland Packaging

Claimed by Dark Project · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 5, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dark Project
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Aug 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sutherland Packaging is a corrugated packaging and display manufacturer with over 50 years of experience, specializing in digitally printed point-of-purchase displays, retail packaging, and turnkey fulfillment solutions for global brands. Based in the USA, the company operates advanced printing technology including HP PageWide digital presses and serves clients across multiple sectors including beverage, snacks, cosmetics, and e-commerce.

Industry: Corrugated Packaging & Display Manufacturing
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 200 GB with published data including customer records and financial/banking information. No encryption-only attack; data already disclosed by the threat actor.

Dark Project claims to have exfiltrated approximately 200 GB of company data containing sensitive information including customer data, bank and financial documents, and approximately 250,000 files. The group has published the data.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

customer data
bank account information
financial documents
business records

What the group claims

About SPI Sutherland Packaging LLC is a leading manufacturer specializing in creative digitally printed full-color point-of-purchase displays for brands worldwide. The company offers a range of services including digital printing, retail packaging, and turnkey fulfillment, focusing on delivering custom-blended solutions that meet client demands. With over 50 years of experience, Sutherland Packaging is trusted by global brands for its high-quality and cost-effective solutions. Due to cyberattack on Sutherland Packaging more than "200" Gb of company data was stolen. Leakage contains big amount of sensitive data such as company's customers data, bank and financial information documents. About 250 000 files are not secured by Sutherland Packaging for now.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Dark Project

Dark Project is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, based on its targeting profile and operational patterns consistent with other profit-driven ransomware actors. As of the time of this writing, no major cybersecurity organizations including CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence firms have published detailed public reporting attributing Dark Project to a specific nation-state, threat actor cluster, or affiliated ransomware ecosystem, and it remains unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed operation. Based on available victim telemetry, the group has claimed at least 18 known victims across a geographically diverse range of countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, the Philippines, and Germany representing its most frequently targeted regions. Its sectoral focus spans manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, hospitality, and education, suggesting an opportunistic targeting methodology rather than a narrowly defined strategic focus, though the inclusion of healthcare and critical infrastructure-adjacent sectors such as transportation warrants continued monitoring. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation at this time, specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption implementation, extortion tactics, and tooling remain unconfirmed by open-source intelligence sources, and analysts should treat any further claims with appropriate caution pending corroborating reporting from authoritative sources. Dark Project should be considered an emerging threat actor under active observation. The group has been linked to 19 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 5, 2026Sutherland Packaging listed by Dark Projecton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dark Project

Dark Project has been linked to 19 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,692 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sutherland Packaging is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 377 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dark Project means Sutherland Packaging 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Dark Project'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.