Was sodic.com hit by ransomware?

sodic.com was listed by the Payloadbin ransomware operation (Egypt), 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 Payloadbin ransomware group?

Payloadbin 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 sodic.com breach?

Payloadbin published data attributed to sodic.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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SODIC

listed as sodic.com · Claimed by Payloadbin · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 17, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payloadbin
Status: Data leaked
Country: Egypt
Listed on leak site: Feb 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

SODIC (Six of October Development and Investment Company) is a leading real estate developer in Egypt with over 28 years of operations, active in West Cairo, East Cairo, and the North Coast. The company delivers residential, commercial, retail, and mixed-use developments, and is listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange under the ticker OCDI.CA. Its communities are home to over 30,000 residents today.

Industry: Real Estate Development
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (data_published status) by the threat actor against a publicly listed real estate company with over 30,000 residents in its communities, indicating confirmed exfiltration of potentially significant business and customer data. The scale of operations and stock-exchange listing elevate the potential sensitivity of exposed financial and personal data.

The Payloadbin ransomware group claims to have compromised SODIC and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify the volume of data exfiltrated or whether encryption occurred alongside the exfiltration.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Potentially resident/customer PII
Financial/investor records (publicly listed company)

What the group claims

SODIC is a leading real estate development company in the region, with a distinguished track record of over 28 years of operations in West Cairo, East Cairo, and the North Coast. SODIC brings to the market award-winning developments that cater to the country’s ever-growing need for high-quality residential, commercial, & retail property as well as sustainable, large-scale, mixed-use developments and vibrant communities that are home to over 30,000 people today. SODIC is listed on the Egypt’s Stock Exchange since 1996 under OCDI.CA.

Sources

Victim sitesodic.com

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Payloadbin

Payloadbin is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion operations targeting diverse sectors across multiple countries. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available regarding whether they operate as an independent entity or utilize a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on observed victim patterns, Payloadbin has demonstrated a broad targeting approach without apparent sector specialization, though they have notably impacted healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture and food production, and telecommunications organizations across 48 documented cases. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations, though their operational pattern suggests standard ransomware deployment tactics. The group has primarily targeted victims in the United States, Philippines, Australia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or potential linguistic capabilities spanning English-speaking regions and select international markets. No major high-profile campaigns, significant law enforcement disruptions, or notable ransomware payment records have been publicly attributed to this group by federal agencies or established threat intelligence firms. Current operational status remains unclear due to limited public documentation, though the group's relatively recent emergence and modest victim count suggests they may represent a smaller-scale operation compared to prominent ransomware families tracked by CISA and FBI reporting. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 17, 2026sodic.com listed by Payloadbinon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payloadbin

Payloadbin has been linked to 48 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, sodic.com is reported in Egypt, a country with 12 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payloadbin means sodic.com 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Payloadbin'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.