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Southern Fire Sprinkler

bd_94a160b054443620 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 28, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Southern Fire Sprinkler →

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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-09-28

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Southern Fire Sprinkler is a specialized company dedicated to the design, installation, and maintenance of fire sprinkler systems. They offer comprehensive fire protection solutions for both residential and commercial properties, ensuring compliance with safety regulations. With a team of experienced professionals, they focus on high-quality service, reliability, and customer satisfaction to safeguard lives and property.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 28, 2024

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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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 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 →