Disclosure context

About nitrogen

**Nitrogen** is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in September 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted extortion campaigns primarily focused on North American and European organizations. The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against 46 documented victims across multiple sectors, with manufacturing companies representing their most frequent targets. Limited public information suggests the group operates independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, though their specific country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain undetermined by major security research firms. Their attack methodology appears to focus on opportunistic targeting across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, technology, and hospitality sectors, with the United States serving as their primary area of operations followed by significant activity in Canada, Portugal, India, and France. Due to the group's recent emergence and relatively low profile compared to established ransomware families, detailed technical analysis of their encryption methods, data exfiltration practices, and initial access vectors has not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence providers such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant. Given the group's recent formation in September 2024, no major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported, with their victim portfolio consisting primarily of small to medium-sized enterprises rather than critical infrastructure or Fortune 500 companies. Nitrogen appears to remain active as of current reporting, though their limited operational history and relatively small victim count suggest they are still establishing their presence within the broader ransomware ecosystem. The group has been linked to 56 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 30, 2024; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 11, 2026FOXCONN listed by nitrogenon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, FOXCONN is reported in TW, a country with 46 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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FOXCONN

Claimed by nitrogen · listed 10 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 11, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: nitrogen
Status: Data leaked
Country: TW
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The company operates across four segments: consumer electronics, cloud and networking products, computing equipment, and components. It manufactures products for major global technology brands including Apple, Intel, Google, Dell, and Nvidia, employing over one million workers worldwide.

Industry: Contract Electronics Manufacturing (EMS)
Address: No. 2, Zihyou Street, Tucheng District, New Taipei City 236, Taiwan
Employees: 1000000+
Founded: 1974

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Claimed exfiltration of 8 TB / 11 million files including confidential engineering drawings and project files belonging to multiple major technology clients (Apple, Intel, Google, Dell, Nvidia) constitutes large-scale exposure of highly sensitive proprietary and potentially regulated business data affecting both Foxconn and its global clientele; data is already stated as published.

The Nitrogen ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 8 TB of data comprising over 11 million files from Foxconn, including confidential instructions, project documentation, and engineering drawings related to client companies such as Apple, Intel, Google, Dell, and Nvidia; data is stated to have been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Confidential client instructions
Engineering project files
Technical drawings
Intel-related project documents
Apple-related project documents
Google-related project documents
Dell-related project documents
Nvidia-related project documents

What the group claims

The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, whose operations are officially divided into four key segments: consumer electronics, cloud and networking products, computing equipment, as well as components and other products.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, whose operations are officially divided into four key segments: consumer electronics, cloud and networking products, computing equipment, as well as components and other products. 
We possess 8 TB of data, comprising over 11 million files. These include files such as: confidential instructions, projects and drawings from Intel, Apple, Google, Dell, Nvidia and many other projects.

Sources

Victim sitewww.foxconn.com
Leak posthttp://nitrogenczslprh3xyw6lh5xyjvmsz7ciljoqxxknd7uymkfetfhgvqd.onion/posts/6a01b4e6b11688ac2f8de667

Source

Indexed 10 days ago

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