Was Elgi Electric & Industries hit by ransomware?

Elgi Electric & Industries was listed by the sinobi ransomware operation (India), 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 sinobi ransomware group?

sinobi 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 Elgi Electric & Industries breach?

sinobi published data attributed to Elgi Electric & Industries. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Elgi Electric & Industries

Claimed by Sinobi · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 19, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sinobi
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Mar 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Elgi Electric & Industries is a leading Indian manufacturer of industrial electric motors and automation solutions with over 60 years of experience. The company specializes in products for the textile and railway industries, including overhead traveling cleaners, yarn conditioning systems, and bobbin transporting systems. It serves both Indian and international markets through customized solutions and technical partnerships with global leaders.

Industry: Industrial Electric Motors & Automation Solutions

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published ('data_published' status) by the threat actor, indicating actual exfiltration and public release of business data from a manufacturing company with international operations. While no specific regulated PII or financial data volumes are confirmed, the publication of exfiltrated data from an industrial manufacturer with global partnerships elevates this beyond medium severity.

The Sinobi ransomware group claims to have compromised Elgi Electric & Industries and has published data associated with the attack. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, though the specific volume of exfiltrated data and whether encryption occurred is not stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company business data
Technical partnership documents
Client information
Operational records

What the group claims

LGI Electric is a leading provider of innovative industrial electric motors and automation solutions, particularly for the textile and railway industries. With over 60 years of experience, the company offers a diverse product range including overhead traveling cleaners, yarn conditioning systems, and bobbin transporting systems, while emphasizing customized solutions to meet client needs. ELGI Electric maintains strong technical partnerships with global leaders, showcasing its commitment to adopting the latest technologies. The company serves both Indian and international markets, reinforcing its reputation as a quality-conscious manufacturer.

Sources

Leak posthttp://sinobi6ftrg27d6g4sjdt65malds6cfptlnjyw52rskakqjda6uvb7yd.onion/leaks/69b9997f6387a4c9a286675c

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About sinobi

Based on the limited publicly available information, Sinobi appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in July 2025, with financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of 268 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, and there is no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than highly selective operations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy, with a focus on manufacturing, healthcare, construction, and technology sectors, suggesting they may exploit common vulnerabilities across these industries rather than deploying sophisticated, sector-specific attack vectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Sinobi have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence timeline and lack of extensive public documentation, the group's current operational status and long-term trajectory remain unclear, though the substantial victim count suggests continued activity as of the last available reporting period. The group has been linked to 274 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 5, 2025; most recent post May 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 19, 2026Elgi Electric & Industries listed by sinobion the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by sinobi

sinobi has been linked to 274 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Elgi Electric & Industries is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by sinobi means Elgi Electric & Industries 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-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on sinobi'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.