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Paul Hildebrandt

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 8 months ago

1.4 TB
Data size
300 employees records
8m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 11, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Sarcoma
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Listed on leak site
Nov 11, 2025
Data size
1.4 TB
Records
300 employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Paul Hildebrandt AG is a leading packaging company headquartered in Germany, offering over 50,000 products including environmentally friendly packaging solutions. The company operates across 14 locations in Germany, Austria, and Denmark with approximately 300 employees. Their product range includes films, boxes, adhesive tapes, and various other packaging materials tailored to a wide variety of industries.

Industry
Packaging Products & Distribution
Address
Germany, Austria, and Denmark (14 locations; headquarters Germany)
Employees
300

Attack summary

Severity: high — 1.4 TB of data has been confirmed exfiltrated and published, representing a large-scale data breach for a mid-sized distribution company with 300 employees across multiple countries. The volume and published status indicate significant business and potentially personal/employee data exposure.

The Sarcoma ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Paul Hildebrandt AG, publishing a 1.4 TB archive as proof of the breach. The disclosed status indicates the data has been published, suggesting exfiltration of significant volumes of company data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company files and documents (1.4 TB archive)
  • Potentially business operational data
  • Potentially employee records
  • Potentially client/customer records
  • Potentially financial records

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

Paul Hildebrandt Paul Hildebrandt AG is a leading packaging company offering over 50,000 products, including environmentally friendly options. With 300 employees across 14 locations in Germany, Austria, and Denmark, they provide tailored packaging solutions for a variety of industries. The company emphasizes sustainability and efficient packaging processes as part of their commitment to client solutions. Their diverse product range includes films, boxes, adhesive tapes, and various packaging materials.Geo: Germany - Leak size: 1,4 TB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL, Exchange

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Site: https://gyf.com.ar/ Industry: Business Services GEO: Argentina 
Site: www.propanelevac.ca Industry: Gas Stations, Retail GEO: Canada 
Site: www.mecmatica.it Industry: Provider of software solutions GEO: Italy 
Site: bedachungen-soellner.de Industry: Commercial & Residential Construction GEO: Germany 
Site: charterindustrial.com Industry: Industrial Machinery & Equipment GEO: USA 
Site: msbuilders.com Industry: Commercial & Residential Construction GEO: USA 
Site: thermofin.de Industry: Building Materials GEO: Germany 
Site: miamimanagement.com Industry: Business Services GEO: USA 
Site: kwg-senftenberg.de Industry: Business Services GEO: Germany 
Site: f1-generation.com Industry: Apparel & Accessories Retail GEO: Germany 
Site: inoxlaghi.com Industry: Industrial Machinery & Equipment GEO: Italy 
Site: maselli.com Industry: Manufacturing innovative optical technology GEO: Italy 
Site: metroheatingandair.com Industry: Commercial & Residential Construction GEO: USA 
Site: hv.com.co Industry: Food & Beverage GEO: Colombia 

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Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 11, 2025Paul Hildebrandt listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site
Data size
1.4 TB
Records
300 employees

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Paul Hildebrandt is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means Paul Hildebrandt 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-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Sarcoma'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.