VERTEL
bd_02fe1d587dac2613 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for VERTEL →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Spacebears 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
We have come from humble beginnings as an operator of communication sites and two-way radio networks. As one of Australia’s first true ‘managed services’ providers, we started our corporate life serving demanding government and enterprise organisations.Vertel is an Australian-owned and operated telecommunications carrier and ICT managed services provider with a vision to enable smarter, healthier and safer Australian communities through excellence in innovation, delivery and support of our services.Headquartered in Sydney with an Australia-wide service delivery capability, Vertel has supported Australian government and corporate sector clients for more than 50 years.Vertel was originally one of Australia’s market-leading managed radio services providers. We pivoted to become a market leader in the provision of high-capacity, highly reliable wireless and hybrid fibre telecommunications services (including, more recently, nbn) with a focus on meeting critical communications needs for customers, particularly in rural and remote Australia.Vertel’s service offerings provide a complementary range of network-centric managed services. These include cloud services (IaaS), software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and managed router services (MRS), managed networks (WAN and LAN), managed voice and security services.As network services experts with a focus on the end-to-end performance of customer services, Vertel excels in responsive 24x7 service and support for our growing base of customers whether in rural and remote regions or in metropolitan areas.As both a carrier and a managed services provider, we provide flexible, responsive and adaptable insights into critical networking and cloud services issues confronting businesses today.- Database, SQL- Personal information of clients- Financial documents https://vertel.com.au/
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Apr 29, 2025
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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Press reports (1)
- Pressspacebearsbd_e06b2037fb0ff0ad2025-06-13 · +45dCandidate
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
spacebears
According to ransomware.live, Space Bears is a double-extortion ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, distinguished by a professional "corporate" aesthetic on its leak site, leveraging Phobos RaaS infrastructure and targeting small-to-medium organizations in manufacturing, technology, and healthcare across the US and Europe.