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The Craneware Group

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Jul 28, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Craneware Group →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Chaos 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: 2026-07-28

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Craneware’s Public Deception: The Reality Behind the 'Non-Sensitive' Data Breach Recent public statements and regulatory filings by UK health-tech firm Craneware claim that the massive cyber-attack they suffered only exposed "non-sensitive or already public regulatory data." They would have the s...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 28, 2026

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 3 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRSep 2 · first

Pattern: first filing Sep 2 (FL), last Sep 14 (OR) — a 12-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

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 2025-02-19

chaos

According to ransomware.live, Chaos is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in early 2025, likely formed by former BlackSuit/Royal members, offering cross-platform ransomware for Windows, Linux, ESXi, and NAS to affiliates recruited on the RAMP dark web forum, excluding CIS/BRICS countries and hospitals from targeting.

97 victims claimed globally97 tracked hereFull profile →