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GLOBALMalwareTechnologyInformationRansomwareRansomedRansom DemandedActor NamedData Leak ThreatenedData PublishedHigh

Optimity.co.uk

bd_00bba008c123731a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Oct 13, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Optimity.co.uk2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ransomed 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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2023-10-13

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We’ve successfully obtained control of their entire Azure cloud environment, which now resides under our supervision. Regrettably for them and fortunately for us, we’ve also secured access to data from over 1000 companies that were utilizing their cloud services. In the event that Optimity does not comply with our demands, we will begin to initiate...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 13, 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

  • 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 2023-08-21

ransomed

According to ransomware.live, RansomedVC was a short-lived extortion group active from August to November 2023 that claimed high-profile victims including Sony, innovating by threatening GDPR regulatory fines as an additional extortion lever; it briefly operated as a RaaS before shutting down in an apparent exit scam following reported arrests of six members.

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