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BOB Automotive Group

bd_8f02ea0900e32fb6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 16, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for BOB Automotive Group

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

Die BOB Automotive Group mit Hauptsitz in Essen ist eine Holding für renommierte und starke Automobilunternehmen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Derzeit ist die BOB-Gruppe mit 20 Autohäusern im Ruhrgebiet, im Rheinland und im Bergischen Land vertreten. 21. Standort ist die Verwaltung, in der die gesamten Querschnittsfunktionen wie zum Beispiel das Personalwesen, Buchhaltung und Controlling, die IT, die Fahrzeugdisposition oder das Marketing gebündelt sind und die administrative Unterstützung für die operativen Standorte leisten. Revenue: 240 M EUR Year 2022

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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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

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  • victim claim
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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 →