Ransomware victim disclosure

HWG Horst Weidner GmbH & Acros Components

listed as H-W-G & Acros Sport · Claimed by lamashtu · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 26, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: lamashtu
Status: Data leaked
Country: DE
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: May 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

HWG Horst Weidner GmbH is a German manufacturer of precision bearings and mechanical components for industrial machinery and automation, located in Renningen near Stuttgart. Acros Components is an electronic components distributor and supplier providing logistics and technical support. The breach involved both entities.

Industry: Industrial Manufacturing & Component Distribution
Address: Benzstr. 58, 71272 Renningen, Germany
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by the group with no ransom demand stated; moderate-sensitivity business data for industrial suppliers. No confirmed exfiltration of regulated PII or financial data; operational impact unclear. Disclosure status confirms data publication but scale and sensitivity are not fully detailed.

The lamashtu group claims to have compromised both HWG and Acros Components, exfiltrating business data. No specific operational disruption or ransom demand is stated.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Customer data
Technical specifications
Company documentation

What the group claims

HWG (h-w-g.com): German manufacturer of bearings and mechanical components for industrial machinery and automation. Acros Components (acros-components.com): Distributor and supplier of electronic components and related logistics/technical support.

Sources

Victim siteh-w-g.com
Leak posthttp://lamashtux5j74mcm7lwwgn5yrvuwtrpxjoyendif3v3hrztjesfoyayd.onion/post/43f1975a183ce59f91589cd160602c8f

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About lamashtu

Based on the limited available information, Lamashtu is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in April 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations. Lamashtu's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established security researchers, though their targeting patterns suggest they employ standard ransomware deployment techniques across multiple industry verticals. The group has conducted at least 8 confirmed attacks, demonstrating a geographically diverse targeting approach with victims identified in France, Italy, the United States, Singapore, and Malaysia, while focusing primarily on business services, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, hospitality and tourism, and energy sectors. Given the group's recent first observation in April 2026 and limited public threat intelligence reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major security firms, Lamashtu appears to represent a newly active threat actor whose current operational status and long-term capabilities require further monitoring and analysis. The group has been linked to 31 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 13, 2026; most recent post May 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 26, 2026H-W-G & Acros Sport listed by lamashtuon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, H-W-G & Acros Sport is reported in DE, a country with 333 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.