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HEC Group

bd_96a3a2e87ea1aba4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 24, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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: OtherDiscovered: 2026-09-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

On August 30, HEC Group issued an official statement addressed to shareholders of TPE:3032 and other stakeholders, announcing that the company had been the target of a cyberattack. In its statement, the company claimed that the breach was detected immediately, that high-tech countermeasures were deployed, and that no corporate documentation was lost. The incident was characterized as a minimal, random occurrence. The reality, however, is starkly different. Our operation against the company began weeks prior to that publication. Due to a systemic failure to implement basic security principles, we gained nearly total control over the infrastructure supporting the development and commercial operations of the entire corporate group. We conducted a methodical and comprehensive review of the documentation, exfiltrating a vast amount of data. We remained undetected for as long as necessary to secure everything we sought. Only after completing our objectives did we initiate the data encryption process, the company's technical staff did not even detect our presence until many hours later. At the time of their official announcement, HEC Group's leadership knew the statement was entirely false. Its sole purpose was to manipulate stock market trading. Instead of contacting us to mitigate the damage, management chose to deceive the exchange. When we finally managed to contact the company's leadership and offered them a chance to make their official statement more truthful in exchange for the deletion of the taken documents, they showed no interest. If the leadership of HEC Group has decided to pursue a path of selfdestruction, we will not stand in their way. To prove that HEC Group’s statement was a fabrication and that our claims are accurate, we will now publish a portion of the exfiltrated data. This initial release will consist of over 360,000 files, drawn from a total volume

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 24, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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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 2022-10-20

dragonforce

According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.

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