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Defiance B.V.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 4, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Defiance B.V.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sarcoma 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: EnergyDiscovered: 2025-05-04

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Defiance Defiance Energy Services, LLC provides water hauling and other services to energy producers throughout the Haynesville Shale. We offer low-cost and efficient services that minimize non-productive time for our customers. In business since 2008, we are now one of the largest water haulers in the Haynesville. We run about 50 vacuum truck each day, serving our customers 24/7/365. In all our work, the safety of our employees, customers, and the environment are paramount. To that end, we maintain a rigorous compliance program to exceed all federal, state, and local regulatory requirements. Our combination of efficiency, reliability, and safety make us the right choice for your service needs.Geo: USA - Leak size: 188 GB Archive - Contains: Files

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 4, 2025

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

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  • victim claim
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  • discovery date
  • materiality
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  • affected count
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-07-09

sarcoma

According to ransomware.live, Sarcoma is a ransomware group that debuted in October 2024, immediately ranking among the top three most active groups globally and surpassing 116 documented victims by mid-2025, targeting mid-market companies across manufacturing, retail, healthcare, legal, and business services with roughly 50% of victims in the United States.

141 victims claimed globally141 tracked hereFull profile →