Was knewin.com hit by ransomware?

knewin.com was listed by the ALP-001 ransomware operation (Brazil), 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 ALP-001 ransomware group?

ALP-001 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 knewin.com breach?

ALP-001 published data attributed to knewin.com (~176.5 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Knewin

listed as knewin.com · Claimed by ALP-001 · listed 4 months ago

176.5 GB

Data size

$52.5M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 30, 2026
Ransom deadlineApr 3, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: ALP-001
Status: Data leaked
Country: Brazil
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 30, 2026
Ransom deadline: Apr 3, 2026
Data size: 176.5 GB
Ransom demanded: $52.5M
Estimated revenue: $52.5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Knewin is a Brazilian technology and data company specializing in reputation management, media monitoring, and brand intelligence across traditional and new media. It operates what it claims to be the largest media monitoring database in Latin America, offering big data analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for communication and marketing professionals. The company serves businesses seeking comprehensive, strategic visibility of their brands at scale.

Industry: Media Monitoring & Reputation Intelligence

Attack summary

Severity: high — 176.5 GB of confirmed exfiltrated data from a company holding the largest media monitoring database in Latin America, with client business intelligence, brand and communication data potentially affecting numerous corporate clients; data has been published.

The ALP-001 group claims to have exfiltrated 176.5 GB of data from Knewin, with a payment deadline of 2026-04-03 and a ransom demand of $52.5 million; the disclosure status indicates data has been published.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal business data
Media monitoring databases
Client data (communication and marketing sector)
Big data analytics assets
Proprietary AI/platform data

What the group claims

Country: Brazil Revenue: $52.5 million Storage: 176.5 GB Description: Through our global solutions platform, we help companies to have a comprehensive and strategic vision of their brands within traditional and new media, using big data analytics and artificial intelligence, generating more value, knowledge and competitiveness for business. Knewin has the largest database in Latin America for media monitoring, in addition to intelligence and data analysis solutions for the communication and marketing segments. Deadline: 2026-04-03 23:57:50

Sources

Victim siteknewin.com
Leak posthttp://b4riuxx7ypobdptctf6lyfcvgi6vn74iurzdh4kn2agbk7472dvywgyd.onion#knewin.com

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About ALP-001

ALP-001 is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with limited documented activity, having targeted only five known victims to date with a focus on financially motivated cybercrime. Due to the group's recent emergence and low victim count, their country of origin, operational structure, and potential affiliations remain unknown with no public documentation from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their organizational structure. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors have not been publicly analyzed or reported by reputable security researchers, though their targeting pattern suggests a preference for technology and manufacturing sectors across developed nations including the United States, Japan, China, France, and Italy. No notable campaigns, high-profile incidents, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented for this group, and no law enforcement actions have been reported against ALP-001. The group's current operational status remains unclear due to limited public intelligence and their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 17 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2026; most recent post April 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 30, 2026knewin.com listed by ALP-001on the group's public leak site

Data size: 176.5 GB
Ransom demanded: $52.5M

Other recent disclosures by ALP-001

ALP-001 has been linked to 17 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full ALP-001 dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, knewin.com is reported in Brazil, a country with 404 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ALP-001 means knewin.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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT.br (Brazil), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on ALP-001'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.