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Arup Group

bd_9d023bd2ff6bc6db · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

May 10, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Arup Group

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Fulcrumsec 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: 2026-05-10

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Arup Group is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1946, it operates in the engineering, design, planning, and consulting industries. The firm provides structural, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering services, alongside architecture and project management. Arup works across sectors including infrastructure, buildings, transport, and energy, delivering projects in over 140 countries worldwide.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 10, 2026

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 2026-05-01

fulcrumsec

According to ransomware.live, FulcrumSec is a data extortion group active since approximately September 2025, specializing in high-speed exfiltration of cloud-hosted databases by exploiting unrotated API keys and misconfigured cloud permissions rather than deploying encryption, with known victims including Australian fintech youX and LexisNexis.

27 victims claimed globally27 tracked hereFull profile →