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Tristram European

bd_f488b3ea137f5943 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Feb 21, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Tristram European

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: 2025-02-22

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Tristram European is a group of privately-owned Volkswagen, SKODA and MG dealerships located on Auckland's North Shore and West Auckland. Our main goal is to provide the best possible service and help you find exactly what you're looking for. Whether you're after something fun or convenient we can help you out. The search starts right here on our website, which is why we have provided a number of tools to help you get started. Our services at Tristram will continue long after you have purchased one of our new or used vehicles. Our service department will take care of any and all of your maintenance and repair needs. They can also answer questions about parts and give honest estimates on cost and time. Whatever your automotive needs may be, we can help you out.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 21, 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 2022-10-20

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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