Disclosure context

About shinyhunters

Based on the limited publicly available information, shinyhunters appears to be a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, and there is insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than sector-specific specialization. The group has reportedly victimized approximately 77 organizations, with primary targeting focused on the United States, France, Japan, Germany, and Australia, showing particular interest in consumer services, technology, financial services, transportation and logistics, and education sectors. Given the group's very recent emergence in late 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by established security research organizations, and no known law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group. The current operational status of shinyhunters remains active based on available reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from major security firms like Mandiant, CrowdStrike, or government agencies have not yet been published due to the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 108 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 19, 2026Zara (zara.com) listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Zara (zara.com) is reported in ES, a country with 116 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Zara (zara.com)

Claimed by shinyhunters · listed 1 month ago

31d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 19, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: shinyhunters
Status: Data leaked
Country: ES
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Zara is a flagship fast-fashion retail brand owned by Inditex, headquartered in Arteixo (A Coruña), Spain. It operates thousands of stores across more than 90 countries and is one of the world's largest clothing retailers. Zara is known for its rapid design-to-shelf supply chain and significant e-commerce presence via zara.com.

Industry: Fast Fashion & Apparel Retail
Address: Calle Txingudi 4, 15703 Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña), Galicia, Spain
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 1975

Attack summary

Severity: high — A confirmed supply-chain intrusion via a third-party vendor (Anodot) resulting in exfiltration of cloud data warehouse (BigQuery) contents from a global retailer of this scale is significant; BigQuery instances for a major e-commerce company likely contain large volumes of customer PII and transactional data, but no regulated medical or government data is indicated, keeping it at high rather than critical pending confirmation of data types.

ShinyHunters claims to have exfiltrated data from Zara's Google BigQuery cloud instances, reportedly gained via a compromise of third-party analytics vendor Anodot.com, and is threatening to publish the data along with additional 'digital problems' if payment is not received by 21 April 2026.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

BigQuery database contents
Cloud analytics data
Potentially customer/transactional records (inferred from BigQuery usage)

What the group claims

Your Bigquery instances data was compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or Leak. This is a final warning to reach out by 21 Apr 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | Updated: 18 Apr 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK

Sources

Victim sitezara.com

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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