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Autohaus Elstermann

bd_8504e6c8b4fc34d6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 23, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Autohaus Elstermann2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Spacebears 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: 2025-12-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Performance, reliability, safety – what distinguishes Renault / Dacia / Kia vehicles also applies to us. We offer you excellent service, good prices, expert advice, and a friendly team.Comprehensive service for carefree driving pleasure. You can rely on it, because nobody knows your Renault better than we do.DatabaseFinancial documentsPersonal information of employees and clients https://www.autohaus-elstermann.de/

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 23, 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

  • 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 2024-04-25

spacebears

According to ransomware.live, Space Bears is a double-extortion ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, distinguished by a professional "corporate" aesthetic on its leak site, leveraging Phobos RaaS infrastructure and targeting small-to-medium organizations in manufacturing, technology, and healthcare across the US and Europe.

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