Findel
bd_fe0f1d63f707b0ac · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Findel →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cicada3301 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Findel is an eCommerce educational resources supplier in the UK and international schools and nurseries marketplace. We own several general and specialist brands including Hope, GLS, Davies Sports, Philip Harris, Spa4Schools, A-Z and LDA. These brands give us full coverage in all product areas for primary, secondary and early years teaching, as well as specialist resources supply for school business managers, science teaching, PE and sports equipment. Findel’s origins can be traced right back to 1817. Today, our brands and websites offer more than 32,000 products to customers in the UK and overseas, with the business exporting to over 130 countries. Headquartered in Hyde, Cheshire, we have distribution centre and offices in Nottingham and employ around 300 people. Findel was acquired from Studio Retail PLC in April 2021 by Endless LLP, and most recently, in April 2024, Findel was acquired by the Manutan Group, a major European B2B player specialising in the distribution of equipment and supplies for businesses and local authorities. If companies do not contact us, the data will be published!
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 21, 2024
- Raw hash
- 033f9c41c474752dc584c7184a8392bd77762ae2510ff863caf0aed43ddc8ca7
Reporting entity
- Name
- cicada3301
Victim entity
- Name
- Findelnorm: findel
- Domain
- findel.co.uk
- Industry
- Professional Services
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· cicada3301
- Threat actor
- Cicada3301ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.