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Sharjah National Oil Corporation

bd_8a2dec88e5ed6aaf · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Mar 3, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Sharjah National Oil Corporation

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Handala 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: 2026-03-03

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Today, one of the UAE’s largest oil and gas giants, Sharjah National Oil Corporation, has fallen to a decisive blow from us, Handala Hack. Your critical infrastructure, the very heart of the region’s energy production and distribution, was dismantled in moments. Now, 1.3 terabytes of your most confidential financial data, oil contracts, project details, and...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 3, 2026

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

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

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

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-05

handala

According to ransomware.live, Not a Ransomware Group

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