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MPA Pharma GmbH

Claimed by Metaencryptor · listed 16 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 23, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Metaencryptor
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Aug 23, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MPA Pharma GmbH is a German-based pharmaceutical company with 35 years of market experience specializing in import and trade of patented, generic, and over-the-counter EU medicinal products, as well as contract manufacturing services. Operating internationally with subsidiaries including EMRAmed and Paranova, the company serves pharmacies and businesses across Europe.

Industry
Pharmaceutical Import, Trade & Contract Manufacturing
Address
Otto-Hahn-Straße 11, 22946 Trittau, Germany
Founded
1989

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Disclosed status indicates data_published, suggesting exfiltration occurred; however, no proof files are advertised in the post, no specific sensitive data categories are confirmed, and the pharmaceutical trade/manufacturing context, while regulated, does not indicate confirmed access to large-scale PII or clinical data.

The metaencryptor group claims to have attacked MPA Pharma GmbH. The leak post does not specify whether data was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both, nor does it detail what data categories are at stake.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Pharmaceutical business records
  • Client/pharmacy information
  • Contract manufacturing data
  • Supplier information

What the group claims

MPA Pharma GmbH is an internationally active, rapidly growing company specializing in the import and trade of high-quality pharmaceuticals, including both patented and generic products. With over 35 years of expertise in the pharmaceutical market, they also provide contract manufacturing services for third parties. Their primary clients include pharmacies and businesses in need of reliable pharmaceutical and medical products. Revenue $614 Million

The leak post

captured from the group's site
MPA Pharma GmbH is an internationally active, rapidly growing company specializing in the import and trade of high-quality pharmaceuticals, including both patented and generic products. With over 35 years of expertise in the pharmaceutical market, they also provide contract manufacturing services for third parties. Their primary clients include pharmacies and businesses in need of reliable pharmaceutical and medical products. Revenue $614 Million  
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Sources

Source

Indexed 16 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Metaencryptor

Metaencryptor is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographical regions. The group appears to be an independent operation rather than a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, though limited public documentation makes definitive attribution challenging regarding their specific country of origin or connections to established cybercriminal networks. Based on their targeting patterns, Metaencryptor demonstrates a preference for manufacturing organizations, business services, and transportation/logistics companies, with their operations concentrated primarily in Western nations including Germany, the United States, Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom. With 31 documented victims since their emergence, the group represents a moderate but persistent threat in the ransomware landscape. However, due to their recent emergence and relatively lower profile compared to major ransomware families, comprehensive technical analysis of their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and specific initial access vectors has not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. The group's current operational status remains active as of available intelligence, though the limited public reporting suggests they operate with a smaller scale and lower visibility than prominent ransomware-as-a-service operations that typically attract more attention from law enforcement and security researchers. The group has been linked to 38 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 16, 2023; most recent post August 23, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 23, 2026MPA Pharma GmbH listed by Metaencryptoron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Metaencryptor

Metaencryptor has been linked to 38 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, MPA Pharma GmbH is reported in Germany, a country with 383 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Metaencryptor means MPA Pharma GmbH 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 Metaencryptor'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.