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FR Ministry of Agriculture

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 1, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for FR Ministry of Agriculture

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lapsus$ 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: Public SectorDiscovered: 2026-03-01

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The FR Ministry of Agriculture, or the French Ministry of Agriculture, is a governmental body in France overseeing agriculture, forestry, and food processing. It develops policies to support farming and rural development, ensures food quality and safety, and handles fisheries and animal welfare. The ministry also plays crucial roles in research, education, and regulation of agricultural and food markets in France.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 1, 2026

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 2021-12-10

lapsus$

According to ransomware.live, Lapsus$ is an internationally composed data extortion group most active from mid-2021 through 2022, executing high-profile breaches against Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, Okta, and Uber by stealing source code and threatening leaks rather than encrypting files; several members — predominantly teenagers — were arrested in the UK.

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