Was holzmarkt chemnitz hit by ransomware?

holzmarkt chemnitz was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (Germany), 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 Spacebears ransomware group?

Spacebears 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 holzmarkt chemnitz breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to holzmarkt chemnitz. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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holzmarkt chemnitz

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 22, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Aug 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Holzmarkt Chemnitz is a specialized building materials and wood products retailer with two branches in Chemnitz, Germany (Fichtestraße and Kalkstraße). They serve both professional builders and private customers with wood, construction materials, and related goods, offering services including delivery, machine rental, and custom plate cutting.

Industry: Building Materials & Wood Products Retail
Address: Fichtestraße 40–42, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany (Filiale Fichtestraße); Kalkstraße 35, 09116 Chemnitz, Germany (Filiale Kalkstraße)

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of PII (employee and client personal data) at a retail scale combined with financial documents and database access represents significant business and customer data exposure.

SpaceBears claims to have exfiltrated personal information of employees and clients, financial documents, and a SQL database from Holzmarkt Chemnitz. The leak post indicates data publication but no ransom demand is stated in the excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information
Client personal information
Financial documents
SQL database

What the group claims

Holzmarkt Chemnitz is a specialized retail store for building materials and wood products, operating two branches in Chemnitz (Fichtestraße and Kalkstraße). They serve as a competent partner for both professional builders and private customers.-Personal information of employees and clients -Financial documents-SQL DB https://holzmarkt-chemnitz.de/

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Holzmarkt Chemnitz is a specialized retail store for building materials and wood products, operating two branches in Chemnitz (Fichtestraße and Kalkstraße). They serve as a competent partner for both professional builders and private customers.
-Personal information of employees and clients -Financial documents-SQL DB

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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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 209 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post August 22, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 22, 2026holzmarkt chemnitz listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 209 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 Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 19 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, holzmarkt chemnitz is reported in Germany, a country with 383 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means holzmarkt chemnitz 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-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Spacebears'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.