Was Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD) hit by ransomware?

Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD) was listed by the Hellcat ransomware operation (Indonesia), 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 Hellcat ransomware group?

Hellcat 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 Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD) breach?

Hellcat published data attributed to Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD) (~82 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Blora Regency (Kabupaten Blora) - Ministry of Home Affairs

listed as Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD) · Claimed by Hellcat · listed 2 years ago

82 GB

Data size

1.5 BTC

Ransom

demanded

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 25, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hellcat
Status: Data leaked
Country: Indonesia
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Dec 25, 2024
Data size: 82 GB
Ransom demanded: 1.5 BTC

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SIPKD (Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah) is the e-Finance system operated by Blora Regency, a local government administrative division in Central Java, Indonesia, under the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri). It manages regional financial operations and records.

Industry: Government - Local/Regional Finance Administration
Address: Blora Regency, Central Java, Indonesia

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 82 GB from government finance system containing multi-year financial data, budgets, and administrative records. Affects local government operations and likely includes PII of officials and beneficiaries. Impacts public sector critical function.

Hellcat claims to have exfiltrated 82 GB of data from Blora Regency's e-Finance system, including backups spanning 2018 to present. The group demands 1.5 BTC for the safe return of data and threatens disclosure if payment is not made by their stated deadline.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

financial records
backups
administrative data
budget documentation
transaction histories

What the group claims

We have successfully stolen82 GBof data, including backups, from the e-Finance system of Blora Regency, known as theSistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD). The data spans from 2018 to the present and remains in our possession. To ensure its safe return, we are demanding1.5 BTC. The deadline for this payment is fast approaching. Once the payment is received, the data will be returned without further delay. The terms are clear, and it is up to Blora Regency's authorities to act accordingly.

Sources

Victim sitekemendagri.go.id

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Hellcat

Hellcat is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their broad geographic targeting spanning the United States, China, Germany, France, and Israel suggests either a sophisticated international operation or the use of ransomware-as-a-service infrastructure. Limited public documentation exists regarding Hellcat's specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics involving data exfiltration prior to encryption, as major cybersecurity firms and government agencies have yet to publish detailed technical analyses of their operations. With only 20 documented victims to date, the group has not yet conducted any widely publicized major campaigns or drawn significant law enforcement attention, though their targeting of technology, education, government, and business services sectors indicates a focus on organizations likely to possess valuable data and have strong incentives to pay ransoms. Hellcat remains active as of current reporting, though their limited operational footprint and recent emergence make long-term assessment of their capabilities and persistence difficult to determine. The group has been linked to 20 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 25, 2024; most recent post April 10, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 25, 2024Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD) listed by Hellcaton the group's public leak site

Data size: 82 GB
Ransom demanded: 1.5 BTC

Other recent disclosures by Hellcat

Hellcat has been linked to 20 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Hellcat dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD) is reported in Indonesia, a country with 77 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hellcat means Sistem Informasi Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (SIPKD) 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Hellcat'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.