Hangzhou Industrial
About the organisation
hztrust.com zoominfo.com/c/hangzhou-industrial--commercial-trust-co-ltd/430077414 Hangzhou Industrial & Commercial Trust (hztrust.com) is a state-owned Chinese financial firm founded in 1986, headquartered in Hangzhou with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. It operates as a joint venture with Morgan Stanley, which holds a 19.9% equity stake (the legal maximum for foreign banks in China). The firm specializes in alternative asset management — private equity, separate accounts, and joint ventures — and as of 2014 managed over $4.8 billion AUM. Services include equity investment, M&A, asset restructuring, corporate finance, and financial advisory
What the listing means
Hangzhou Industrial appeared on the thegentlemen leak site on 14 April 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 134 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Hangzhou Industrial as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on hztrust.com, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Manufacturing organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/SGFuZ3pob3UgSW5kdXN0cmlhbEB0aGVnZW50bGVtZW4=