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Belize Electricity Limited - Leaked

Claimed by Ragnarlocker · listed 3 years ago

36m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 10, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Belize
Listed on leak site
Jul 10, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) is the primary electricity transmission and distribution company in Belize, serving residential, commercial, and industrial customers nationwide. It operates as a regulated utility under government oversight and is responsible for managing the national electricity grid. BEL is majority state-owned and is a critical infrastructure provider for the country.

Industry
Electric Power Distribution & Utilities
Address
Belize City, Belize
Employees
201-500
Founded
1992

Attack summary

Severity: critical — BEL is critical national infrastructure (sole electricity distributor in Belize); data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of data, which likely includes regulated PII (customer accounts, employees) and sensitive operational data for a critical utility. Compromise of a national grid operator warrants critical severity regardless of confirmed data volume.

Ragnar Locker claims to have attacked Belize Electricity Limited and published exfiltrated data; the disclosure status is 'data_published,' indicating stolen data has been released, though no specific data volume or ransom demand was captured in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Internal business documents
  • Employee records
  • Customer data
  • Financial records
  • Operational/grid management data

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ragnarlocker

**Overview:** Ragnarlocker is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in April 2020, conducting targeted attacks against enterprise organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on maximizing profit through encryption and data theft extortion tactics. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though they operate as an independent ransomware family rather than offering Ransomware-as-a-Service capabilities to other criminal actors. **Attack Methodology:** Ragnarlocker operators typically gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that employs strong encryption algorithms. The group practices double extortion tactics, exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish stolen information on dedicated leak sites if ransom demands are not met, often targeting network shares and attempting to delete shadow copies to prevent recovery. **Notable Campaigns:** The group has successfully compromised 128 documented victims across multiple countries, with significant targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including energy, finance, and telecommunications organizations, though specific high-profile incidents and ransom amounts have not been widely disclosed in public threat intelligence reports. **Current Status:** Based on available public reporting, Ragnarlocker remains an active threat as of recent security advisories, continuing to target organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 128 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 1, 2020; most recent post October 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ragnar Locker.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 10, 2023Belize Electricity Limited - Leaked listed by Ragnarlockeron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy & Utilities sector, which has 163 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Belize Electricity Limited - Leaked is reported in Belize.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ragnarlocker means Belize Electricity Limited - Leaked appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Ragnarlocker's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.