Cotswold Fayre
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Full breach record for Cotswold Fayre →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Cotswold Fayre was started by Paul Hargreaves in the Early Nineties originally as the wholesale distribution arm of a number of small Cotswold based companies. With the tremendous growth of interest in high quality products that are not available in the multiples during this time, Cotswold Fayre has grown and developed considerably. Cotswold Fayre now supply over 700 customers now and has over 80 suppliers. These suppliers are all speciality producers mainly from the UK, but now some are from as far away as New Zealand and South Africa. NOTE: To view our product range and make an order you need to become a registered customer
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Mar 5, 2025
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
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
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dragonforce
According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.