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Autohaus Ebert

bd_64077ce790840b93 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 16, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Autohaus Ebert2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Metaencryptor 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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2023-08-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Autohaus Ebert GmbH & Co.KG has been there for its customers for more than 120 years. At 12 locations around the Weinheim headquarters, the company offers a wide range of new and used cars as well as commercial vehicles. In addition, Autohaus Ebert GmbH & Co.KG offers comprehensive services related to automobiles. Revenue: $200M

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 16, 2023

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

  • 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 2023-08-16

metaencryptor

According to ransomware.live, MetaEncryptor is a ransomware group first observed in mid-2023, targeting medium-to-large enterprises in legal, technology, logistics, manufacturing, and finance sectors primarily in the UK, Europe, and Southeast Asia, using AES-256/RSA-2048 encryption and double extortion.

47 victims claimed globally47 tracked hereFull profile →