Was Sharp Motor Group hit by ransomware?

Sharp Motor Group was listed by the Storm ransomware operation (Australia), 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 Storm ransomware group?

Storm 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 Sharp Motor Group breach?

Storm published data attributed to Sharp Motor Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Sharp Motor Group

Claimed by Storm · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 24, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Storm
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Transportation
Listed on leak site: Aug 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sharp Motor Group is a privately owned automotive dealership group based in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia, serving the Tweed Heads, Northern Rivers, and Gold Coast regions. The company sells new, used, and demonstrator vehicles and provides servicing, spare parts, finance, insurance, and trade-in services, representing brands including Kia, Suzuki, Mahindra, Chery, Renault, and GMSV.

Industry: Automotive Retail & Dealership Services
Address: 153 Wharf Street, Tweed Heads, NSW 2485, Australia
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory are advertised in the leak post. No operational disruption or data categories are detailed. The post is a listing/announcement only.

The Storm group claims to have attacked Sharp Motor Group and published data. No specific details are provided in the leak post regarding what data was exfiltrated or whether encryption was deployed.

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What the group claims

Sharp Motor Group is a privately owned automotive dealership group based in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. The company serves customers across Tweed Heads, the Northern Rivers region, and the Gold Coast. Sharp Motor Group sells new, used, and demonstrator vehicles and provides vehicle servicing, spare parts, finance, insurance, and trade-in services. Its dealership represents major automotive brands, including Kia, Suzuki, Mahindra, Chery, Renault, and GMSV. The company focuses on providing a convenient one-stop automotive service and emphasizes customer service, value, choice, and a positive buying and ownership experience. The company headquarters is located in 153 Wharf Street, Tweed Heads, NSW 2485, Australia. 51-200 Employees

Sources

Leak posthttp://yqhecvqtdvq6p7duqcgw2qca77spbgakxcoibtx6zpvfshltsbbbhfqd.onion/company/6a8aef68bcb899d105729a10

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Storm

Storm is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting profile, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and relatively small victim footprint. The group has claimed or been attributed to attacks against at least six known victims, with the United States representing its primary target geography. Storm has demonstrated a preference for targeting the healthcare and manufacturing sectors, alongside a broader category of other industries, suggesting an opportunistic rather than highly specialized targeting philosophy. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited victim count, comprehensive technical details regarding its initial access vectors, encryption methodology, tooling, or affiliation with known threat actor ecosystems have not yet been formally documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other major threat intelligence publishers as of the time of this writing. No confirmed RaaS infrastructure, dark web leak site activity, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly attributed or reported in open sources. Given its nascent operational timeline beginning in 2026, Storm should be monitored as an emerging threat, particularly within the healthcare sector where ransomware attacks carry significant operational and patient safety implications, but analysts should treat any further characterization beyond the known victim and targeting data with caution pending additional corroborating intelligence. The group has been linked to 35 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post August 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 24, 2026Sharp Motor Group listed by Stormon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Storm

Storm has been linked to 35 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 Transportation sector, which has 47 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sharp Motor Group is reported in Australia, a country with 188 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Storm means Sharp Motor Group 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Storm'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.