Was Nitrex Chemicals India hit by ransomware?

Nitrex Chemicals India was listed by the ORION 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 ORION ransomware group?

ORION 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 Nitrex Chemicals India breach?

ORION published data attributed to Nitrex Chemicals India. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Nitrex Chemicals India

Claimed by Orion · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 5, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Orion
Status: Data leaked
Country: India
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Aug 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nitrex Chemicals India Ltd. is a manufacturer of industrial nitrocellulose, a film-forming resin used in inks and coatings applications. The company positions itself as a world-leading producer emphasizing quality, flexibility, and safety standards.

Industry: Specialty Chemicals & Industrial Materials

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published and exfiltration is claimed, but no specific data types, volume, or proof files are detailed in the available leak post. No regulatory or sensitive category data (PII at scale, medical, financial) is mentioned.

The orion group claims to have exfiltrated data from Nitrex Chemicals India and demands payment for non-disclosure. No specific technical details or operational impact are disclosed in the post.

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What the group claims

We only seek money. No morals, no political stance Your data is only secure IF you pay us

Sources

Victim sitewww.nitrex.in
Leak posthttp://cjfntkj5qeizxowuy3srceg7zo6namc3kfeor7pfn6bpdkl3w265ooid.onion/news/article?id=37

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About ORION

Jan13, 2026: We believe the group might be related to Babuk-Bjorka. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2026; most recent post August 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 5, 2026Nitrex Chemicals India listed by ORIONon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by ORION

ORION has been linked to 18 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 3,692 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Nitrex Chemicals India is reported in India, a country with 243 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ORION means Nitrex Chemicals India 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 ORION'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.