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Hunters International Ransomware Group Leaks Stolen Data from Tata Technologies

The ransomware group known as Hunters International has published data that it claims to have stolen from Tata Technologies, just over a month after the Indian company confirmed it was the victim of a ransomware attack.

The leaked data, shared on the gang’s dark web leak site, includes sensitive personal information about some current and former employees, along with confidential corporate documents such as purchase orders and contracts with clients in India and the United States.

The data set reportedly contains over 730,000 documents, including Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs, and amounts to around 1.4 terabytes in total. Tata Technologies had previously confirmed a ransomware attack in late January, which led to some IT assets being compromised, although it stated that client services remained unaffected.

It remains unclear whether the leaked data is directly tied to the earlier attack, as Tata Technologies has yet to respond to inquiries from TechCrunch regarding the incident.

Founded in 1989 as part of Tata Motors, Tata Technologies became a separate company in 1994 and is now a subsidiary of the Tata Group. The company offers product engineering and R&D services across the automotive and aerospace sectors in over 27 countries, employing more than 12,500 people.

Hunters International, which emerged in late 2023, is a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service group. It leases its infrastructure to affiliate hackers who carry out ransomware attacks and takes a portion of the ransom payments. The group has been linked to the Hive ransomware gang, which law enforcement largely disrupted in 2023. Interestingly, the Hive group had previously leaked data from a separate Tata Group company, Tata Power, after a breach in 2022.