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Fractal ID

bd_fe22f8c9b873f3eb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 16, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 records

Confidence

50%
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Stormous 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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2024-10-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

THE FULL LEAK OF FRACTAL ID IS HERE ! web.fractal.id We have extracted over 10GB of DATA from the KYC system of Fractal ID and some of its other systems. The breach includes more than 300,000 users linked to Fractal ID clients in its KYC service. Our leak from the hack includes the following: The total amount of data we managed to access exceeded 10 GB ------ 12GB, including personal photos, bank statements, proof of address, and ETH/BTC addresses. Our breach involves over 300,000 users. ENJOY! "A report will be published soon about the company's status regarding data protection!"

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 16, 2024

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

This leak-site claim is one of 2 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Press reports (1)

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 2022-03-22

stormous

According to ransomware.live, Stormous is an Arabic-speaking, pro-Russian ransomware and hacktivist group active since at least 2022, known for politically motivated attacks across 15+ countries, collaborating with GhostSec on the GhostLocker 2.0 RaaS platform and inheriting GhostSec's RaaS operations in mid-2024.

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