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FF-Steel GmbH

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 4, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for FF-Steel GmbH

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sarcoma 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: 2024-12-04

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

FF Steel FF Steel is a fully-integrated and one of the fastest growing and largest steel manufacturers of Pakistan with the capability to produce grades 60 exclusively and 80 solely, sold around Pakistan and exploring potential to export in ASEAN Countries due to its close proximity. Since its foundation in 1986, the company has excelled in the manufacturing of steel products complying with international standards like ASTM 615, ASTM 706 & BSI 4449. FF Steel is having a workforce of 1000+ employees throughout Pakistan with 2 large scale production units situated in Peshawar and Lahore with an annual production capacity of 400,000 tons. FF Steel has developed an enviable reputation of delivering premium quality steel bars in Pakistan, driven by its strong demand in construction steels. Our ambition is to be the number one and preferred manufacturer of premium quality, competitive and cost-optimized steel bars in Pakistan.Geo: Pakistan - Leak size: 235 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Dec 4, 2024

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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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.

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About this groupFirst seen 2024-07-09

sarcoma

According to ransomware.live, Sarcoma is a ransomware group that debuted in October 2024, immediately ranking among the top three most active groups globally and surpassing 116 documented victims by mid-2025, targeting mid-market companies across manufacturing, retail, healthcare, legal, and business services with roughly 50% of victims in the United States.

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