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Shelly Engineering Metal Work

bd_89b03386836fc6ef · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 14, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Shelly Engineering Metal Work

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ciphbit 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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2023-09-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Shelley's was founded by Peter Shelley in the 1960's. Steady growth led to incorporation in 1979 and in 2006 when Peter retired, the company was taken over by two of his daughters. It has grown every year since then to become a leader in its field. We repeat business with many of our customers and receive new business mainly through referral. Shelley's are known by its customers for "delivering an end to end metalwork service for bespoke design and manufacture" . We offer build and installation for projects, with top to tail project management. Our workshop facilities include the latest design, construction and finishing technologies, delivering unrivalled quality and projects delivered on time and on budget.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 14, 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

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-09-14

ciphbit

According to ransomware.live, CiphBit is a ransomware-as-a-service group active since April 2023, targeting small-to-mid-sized businesses across the UK, Europe, and North America with 38 known victims, employing a data-broker model with selective free leaks to pressure victims alongside standard double extortion.

36 victims claimed globally36 tracked hereFull profile →