Merit Group
bd_6db68c184092c434 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Merit Group →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sinobi 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
Merit Group plc is a British publishing holding company founded in 2001. Its largest shareholder is the Conservative politician and businessman Lord Michael Ashcroft. It was formerly known as Huveaux plc (from 2001 to 2010) and then as Dods Group plc (20102021). Its ordinary shares are listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jan 11, 2026
- Raw hash
- 806d456c0dc9f90475a8c10710fe695ccca107913011c21da1d70e567df8fbdd
Reporting entity
- Name
- sinobi
Victim entity
- Name
- Merit Groupnorm: merit group
- Domain
- meritgrouplimited.com
- Industry
- Professional Services
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· sinobi
- Threat actor
- SinobiExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.