EWM Group
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Full breach record for EWM Group →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Aurora 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
[fashion] EWM Group — the parent group behind Bonmarché, Edinburgh Woollen Mill, and Peacocks, three of the UK's best-known value fashion chains. The exposed material includes: 503,878 loyalty programme member records — full name, home address, date of birth, phone, mobile, email, loyalty card number, and transaction history spanning 2000–2026. ~21,000 employee records — salary, National Insurance number (via P11D), bank sort code and account number (WAGESTRANSFER database), home address, emergency contacts, maternity/paternity data, sickness absence, accident reports with injury details. <redacted> <redacted> <redacted> <redacted> <redacted> 100+ GB of Outlook PST email archives — complete email histories for named staff members spanning years of business operations. 313+ SQL Server database backups across 122 unique databases — the entire digital brain of the retail operation. 83 GB of e-commerce transaction data — every online order from January 2021 to August 2026.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 28, 2026
Claim posted
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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.
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aurora
According to ransomware.live, Aurora is a ransomware group associated with a multi-purpose Go-based malware distributed by multiple criminal teams from mid-2022, also sold as an infostealer/botnet under the same name on underground forums.