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ACEA SpA

bd_acc032f612b71238 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 30, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ACEA SpA

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Worldleaks 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: EnergyDiscovered: 2025-08-07
Listing address (not linked): https://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/7978461947

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

ACEA SpA is an Italian utility company that distributes and produces electricity, gas, water, and energy. It operates in various sectors such as electricity, water, and environment. It manages the water service in Rome and Frosinone, and parts of other Italian provinces. Furthermore, it is involved in energy production from renewable sources and waste disposal management. Founded in 1909, the Rome-based company is one of the major players in Italy's utilities sector.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 30, 2025

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 2022-06-23

worldleaks

According to ransomware.live, World Leaks emerged in January 2025 as a rebrand of the Hunters International ransomware operation, shifting its focus from file encryption to solely stealing sensitive data and threatening to leak it unless a ransom is paid

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