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Depona

Claimed by Qilin · listed 23 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 7, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Qilin
Status
Data leaked
Country
Sweden
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Aug 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Depona is a Swedish specialist in digital and physical archiving solutions, offering both SaaS-based systems (Visual Archive, e-Arkiv) and physical document storage. The company operates 7 archive facilities across Sweden and maintains international operations in 5 countries, serving municipalities, public institutions, and private clients requiring compliant document retention.

Industry
Document Management & Digital Archiving Services
Address
Öckerögatan 2, 211 24 Malmö, Sweden (headquarters); additional facilities in Göteborg, Katrineholm, Södertälje, Upplands-Väsby, Falun, Vilhelmina, and operations in 5 countries

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The attack is confirmed by the victim's disclosure status and website outage notification, and the company handles sensitive regulated data (municipal records, classified documents, personnel files). However, without the group's leak post details, no proof of actual exfiltration can be verified, and the scope of compromise remains unclear.

The Qilin ransomware group claims to have attacked Depona. The group's leak post details are marked as 'N/A', so the specific attack vector, data exfiltration claims, and operational impact cannot be verified from the available information. The victim's public website shows a temporary service disruption notice.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Digital archives and document repositories
  • Client financial records (bokföring)
  • Personnel files (personalhandlingar)
  • Classified/security-marked documents (säkerklassad information)
  • Municipal government records
  • Journal records

What the group claims

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 23 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 2,133 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post August 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 7, 2026Depona listed by Qilinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Qilin

Qilin has been linked to 2,133 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Qilin dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,567 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Depona is reported in Sweden, a country with 18 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Qilin means Depona 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, CERT-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Qilin'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.