Was emanic.net hit by ransomware?

emanic.net was listed by the lockbit3 ransomware operation (United States), 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 lockbit3 ransomware group?

lockbit3 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 emanic.net breach?

lockbit3 published data attributed to emanic.net. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Electronic Maintenance Associates, Inc.

listed as emanic.net · Claimed by Lockbit3 · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 11, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lockbit3
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Aug 11, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Electronic Maintenance Associates, Inc. (EMA) provides products, services, and training for medium voltage variable frequency drives. The company has been operating for 33 years and reports high customer satisfaction rates (98% very satisfied).

Industry: Industrial Equipment & Services - Medium Voltage Variable Frequency Drives
Founded: 1991

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed status confirmed), indicating successful exfiltration. However, no specific data inventory details, file counts, or proof screenshots are described in the available post excerpt. The company serves industrial/manufacturing sectors but the sensitivity of exposed data types is not detailed.

LockBit3 claims to have compromised Electronic Maintenance Associates, Inc. The group has published data from the breach on their leak site, indicating exfiltration occurred.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
customer information
technical documentation

What the group claims

Electronic Maintenance Associates, Inc. (dba EMA) provides products, services, training, and more related to Medium Voltage Variable Frequency Drives. Celebrating our 33rd year, over 98% of our customers say they are "very satisfied" with EMA; that's...

Sources

Victim siteemanic.net
Leak posthttp://lbb6ud2vyf23z4hw6fzskr5gru7eftbjfbd6yzra3hzuqqvjy63blqqd.onion//post/AeD6czknaXUC03BO66b850feea14c

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 11, 2024emanic.net listed by lockbit3on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lockbit3

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,544 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, emanic.net is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit3 means emanic.net 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on lockbit3'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.