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Grupo Herradura Occidente

bd_f23e99c945a251e9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

May 5, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Grupo Herradura Occidente

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Imncrew 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: 2025-05-05

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Grupo Herradura Occidente is a Mexican transportation company formed in 2007 through the merger of two long-established companies: Autotransportes Herradura de Plata (founded in 1945) and Grupo Occidente (founded in 1956). This fusion aimed to create a more profitable, productive, and efficient organization capable of facing financial and global changes at that time. The company operates a modern fleet of over 780 buses, including brands like Volvo, Mercedes Benz, and MAN, and transports more than 20 million passengers annually. It offers three service modalities: Plus, economic, and suburban.The company is based in Mexico City and is active in the truck transportation industry .Grupo Herradura Occidente is known for its significant presence in the Mexican transportation sector, particularly in passenger bus services, and it has a substantial vehicle fleet and passenger volume. However, some employee reviews mention challenges related to workplace environment and management practices .In summary, Grupo Herradura Occidente is a key player in Mexico’s passenger and truck transportation industry, with a history rooted in two legacy companies and a large, modern fleet serving millions of passengers yearly.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

May 5, 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

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2025-05-05

imncrew

According to ransomware.live, IMN Crew is a data extortion and ransomware group that emerged in late March 2025, primarily targeting financial services organizations in the US, Croatia, and Indonesia by exploiting exposed perimeter services such as firewalls and VPNs, claiming at least five victims.

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