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Hills Salvage and Recycling

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 14, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Hills Salvage and Recycling

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: 2023-01-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Hills started as a bodyshop with a garage forecourt over 50 years ago. Our operation has grown rapidly in recent years, initially at our site in Burscough and now at our new home in East Gillibrands, Skelmersdale, conveniently located just off the M58.We began delivering parts in 1997 and a mail order service began the following year. We are now one of the largest and most specialised services of our type in the UK. Our move to a giant 11 acre site in Skelmersdale confirms this and redifines the professionalism of salvage and recycling business in Britain today.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jan 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

  • 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 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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