Thechange
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Full breach record for Thechange →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group ALPHV / BlackCat 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
ESTABLISHED IN NOVEMBER, 1993 Now a driving force in the UK IT Distribution channel, The Change Organisation began its journey back in 1993. Starting from humble beginnings (a garage in Kent), we have continued to achieve year on year organic growth through delivering not only the right products at the right price, but in providing maximum product availability, flexibility, excellent logistics & a genuinely personable customer service.. Almost 30 years on, the company has evolved into a well-oiled machine, operating across 4 sites with a group turnover of £80 million. Our 70+ staff all possess a shared passion for their personal and our collective corporate development. As the commercial world moves inexorably towards e-commerce, AI, and automated telephony, the Change Organisation continues to uphold it’s maxim of providing traditional service in the modern manner. We believe this demands dedicated and empowered account managers answering your calls. A culture of full accountability with a commitment to effect quick resolutions (when we’ve fallen short) establishing long term relationships built on trust.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 4, 2023
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
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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.
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
alphv
According to ransomware.live, The operators of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware began their activity in December 2021, making posts on Dark Web forums to promote their affiliate program, offering other actors the opportunity to engage in a 'new type of ransomware family' developed from scratch using the Rust programming language. Some clear evidence indicates that the actors behind this new ransomware are not new to cybercrime, and there were links to other affiliate programs such as DarkSide, BlackMatter, and REvil. (After several attacks against large companies, these groups faced pressure and arrests, necessitating the termination of their operations). As a security measure, the operators of ALPHV implemented the requirement for the execution of the ransomware payload by providing an 'access token,' which is supplied by the owners of the Ransomware-as-a-Service to the affiliate. This token is added to the victim's ransom note so that they can contact the threat actor responsible for encrypting the data. ALPHV affiliates employ double and triple extortion techniques, meaning the publication of the company's name on leak sites, threats of data leakage, and lastly, threats of DDoS attacks against the organization. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs