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hep global GmbH

bd_02a33297283e912c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jun 4, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for hep global GmbH

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Darkrace on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: EnergyDiscovered: 2023-06-04

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

A partner for everything to do with solar energy. That’s hep. Since 2008. We develop, build, operate and finance solar parks. World-wide. For energy production that can do more than supply electricity. The large-scale photovoltaic facilities we have developed have a capacity of around 1,310 MW peak. From our sites in Germany, Japan and the USA we operate 18 solar projects ourselves. Our active pipeline for future projects comprises around 5,300 MW peak. (The number of solar parks in operation are up to date. All the other figures are updated every six months.)

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jun 4, 2023

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-05-30

darkrace

According to ransomware.live, DarkRace is a ransomware variant that surfaced in mid-2023 sharing strong code similarities with LockBit, employing double-extortion via a dark web leak site, but remained a minor player with fewer than 15 posted victims in its first half-year.

10 victims claimed globally10 tracked hereFull profile →