Was SitePro Rentals hit by ransomware?

SitePro Rentals was listed by the emperador ransomware operation (United States) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the emperador ransomware group?

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SitePro Rentals

Claimed by Emperador · listed 22 hours ago

338000 pay records

Records

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 28, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Emperador
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: United States
Sector: Construction & Industrial Equipment Rental
Listed on leak site: Sep 28, 2026
Records: 338000 pay records

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SitePro Rentals is a Texas-based construction and industrial equipment rental company founded in 2021. A subsidiary of Sammons Industrial, it operates over 30 locations across the U.S., renting aerial lifts, forklifts, and earthmoving equipment to contractors.

Industry: Construction & Industrial Equipment Rental
Founded: 2021

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated PII at scale: SSNs, addresses, and birth dates of entire employee roster (338,000+ pay records) constitute sensitive personal information subject to breach notification laws and GDPR/CCPA protections.

The grupo claims to have exfiltrated employee personal data including Social Security numbers, home addresses, birth dates, salaries, and health/employment status information. The post references 338,000 pay records and demands $150,000 USD in XMR.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Social Security numbers
Home addresses
Birth dates
Salaries
Health status records
Employment status records
Pay records (338,000)

What the group claims

SitePro Rentals is a Texas-based construction and industrial equipment rental company founded in 2021. A subsidiary of Sammons Industrial, it rents aerial lifts, forklifts, and earthmoving equipment, serving contractors across the U.S. from over 30 locations.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

SitePro Rentals is a Texas-based construction and industrial equipment rental company founded in 2021. A subsidiary of Sammons Industrial, it rents aerial lifts, forklifts, and earthmoving equipment, serving contractors across the U.S. from over 30 locations.
We have every employee's Social Security number. Home addresses. Birth dates. Salaries. We know who's sick, who's on leave, who got fired and why. We also have 338,000 pay records....
Shortly, you will receive an email containing the instructions on how to proceed with this situation.
The ransom is relatively small, just $150k USD in XMR...
If you do not receive the email, contact us at:Email: [email protected]: 05651c7323273b723588d47455471ee9e27feb5187a30f2933554a705aacb38358

Data the group says was taken

Social Security numbers
home addresses
birth dates
salaries
medical/leave information
termination records
pay records

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://emprdr4p7iwlhpky33tswt3k2qdeljyjcdpoysabudmmrz4z32laexad.onion/post/siteprorentals/

Source

Indexed 22 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About emperador

Emperador is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, though its limited operational history makes comprehensive attribution difficult at this time. Based on available data, the group has recorded at least one confirmed victim, with targeting concentrated in the Philippines and a demonstrated focus on the Government and Defense sector, suggesting either opportunistic targeting or a deliberate interest in sensitive public-sector data. Specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and tooling have not been publicly documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources as of this profile's compilation, and no affiliation with known ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems or established threat actor clusters has been formally established. No notable high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions have been publicly attributed to this group, which is consistent with its nascent operational timeline and minimal victim count. Given its very recent emergence and limited observed activity, Emperador should be considered an emerging and uncharacterized threat requiring continued monitoring, particularly by organizations operating within Philippine government and defense environments. The group has been linked to 54 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 12, 2026; most recent post September 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 28, 2026SitePro Rentals listed by emperador on the group's public leak site

Records: 338000 pay records

Other recent disclosures by emperador

emperador has been linked to 54 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 Construction & Industrial Equipment Rental sector. Geographically, SitePro Rentals is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by emperador means SitePro Rentals appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on emperador'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.