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 13, 2026Stienemann Tax Consultancy listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Stienemann Tax Consultancy 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.

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Stienemann Tax Consultancy

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 8 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 13, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: DE
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: May 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Stienemann Tax Consultancy is a tax advisory firm located in Witten, Germany. The firm specialises in tax matters for trades, real estate professionals, engineers, and consultants, offering services including tax returns, accounting, and preparation of annual financial statements. It positions itself as a digitally enabled but personally engaged practice.

Industry: Tax Consulting & Accounting Services
Address: Witten, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: high — A tax consultancy by nature holds significant volumes of regulated personal and financial data (PII, financial records, tax returns) for its clients. Even a listing without explicit proof implies credible risk of exposure of sensitive financial and personal data at scale, warranting a high severity rating.

The Spacebears ransomware group has listed Stienemann Tax Consultancy as a victim on their leak site, implying exfiltration of confidential data; no specific data volume or encryption confirmation is stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client tax records
Financial statements
Accounting data
Personal and financial data of clients

What the group claims

A tax consultancy firm in Witten focusing on trades, real estate, engineers and consultants. Provides tax returns, accounting, and annual financial statements.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Stienemann Tax Consultancy

Sources

Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/

Source

Indexed 8 days ago

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