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5àSec

bd_ea7af30e3b36c79e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jul 2, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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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.

Group activity: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2025-07-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

To our surprise, company representatives stated that for a network of over 2000 dry cleaners, publishing database dumps for several countries of presence would not cause problems, and customers are not important. Their investors expressed the same opinion. Therefore, we are forced to keep our promise and publish this data in full. Current and future partners of the network, as well as all customers, should think very carefully about who they trust. 5aSec was created in 1968 from a real innovative concept based on services with a good quality/price ratio accessible to everybody, straight forward rates with only 5 different prices (hence the «5» in 5aSec) and with fast delivery return. From then on, 5aSec has benefited from a huge development thanks to a commercial offer which came at the right moment. In 30 years, the brand has first expanded in the French territory and then began its great international expansion. In 2001, 5aSec took a new dimension with the arrival of a new investor - EAC Group - and of Olivier Bedat who gave a new dynamism to the group. In 2007, 5aSec's shareholder changed and the Investment company ING Parcom acquires the group. This evolution allowed the 5aSec Group to strenghten its leader position, to continue its international development and to reinforce its shops network.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jul 2, 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

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 2022-10-20

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.

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