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 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 5, 2026Erla Technologies SAS listed by spacebearson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Erla Technologies SAS is reported in FR, a country with 238 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.

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Erla Technologies SAS

Claimed by spacebears · listed 16 days ago

15d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 5, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: FR
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: May 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Erla Technologies SAS is a French manufacturer specialising for over 30 years in the design, fabrication, installation, and maintenance of equipment for the storage, distribution, and management of petroleum products, biofuels, AdBlue, gas, electricity, and industrial/chemical fluids. The company holds the 'Origine France Garantie' certification and serves clients across road transport, rail, air, maritime, military, and industrial sectors. It also develops its own fuel management software and supervision systems (EpackWeb).

Industry: Fuel Storage & Distribution Equipment Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The exfiltrated data reportedly includes documentation tied to the French military (a defence/government client), as well as PII of employees and clients and financial records. Exposure of defence-related documentation alongside regulated personal and financial data constitutes a critical severity disclosure.

The spacebears group claims to have exfiltrated data from Erla Technologies SAS and has published it, with stated contents including documentation related to the French army as a client, personal information of employees and clients, and financial documents.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

French army client documentation
Personal information of employees and clients
Financial documents
Other files

What the group claims

Our company, Erla Technologies SAS, has specialised for more than 30 years in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining a huge range of innovative equipment with Guaranteed French Produced certification and intended for storage, distribution and management of petroleum products, biofuel, Adblue and industrial and chemical fluids.Aware of environmental issues, new energies are at the heart of the innovations and solutions brought by Erla Technologies.-One of the clients is the French army, documentation.-Personal information of employees and clients-Financial documents-Other files https://www.erla.fr

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Do you trust your data to this company? 
This page contains a list of companies whose clients and business partners entrusted them with their confidential data, but these companies leaked data. The data may contain confidential information such as login credentials, intellectual property, personal and financial data, etc.
SmilePoint Dental Group is a fast-growing dental organization operating 26–28 offices across Texas and New Mexico.The group runs multiple family dental clinics and orthodontics practices in smaller communities under various brands such as Crosby Family Dental, Liberty Family Dental, Jasper Family Dental, SmilePoint Dental, and others.They offer comprehensive services including general dentistry, orthodontics, cosmetic care, implants, and preventive treatments with modern equipment.
- Patient database with social security numbers and medical histories- Access to the local EagleSoft database- Financial reports
The data provided will allow you to deploy the company's database on any PC with full access to SmilePoint's EagleSoft functionality.
Our company, Erla Technologies SAS, has specialised for more than 30 years in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintai…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Erla Technologies SAS

Sources

Victim sitewww.erla.fr
Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/38/erla-technologies-sas

Source

Indexed 16 days ago

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