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Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP)

Claimed by Ransomexx · listed 4 years ago

5.500 employees
Records
$2.5B
Ransom
demanded
47m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 23, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomexx
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 23, 2022
Records
5.500 employees
Ransom demanded
$2.5B

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) is a Canadian manufacturer of powersports vehicles including Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Can-Am ATVs and motorcycles, Sea-Doo personal watercraft, and Rotax engines. Spun off from Bombardier Inc. in 2003, BRP operates manufacturing facilities across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Finland, and Austria, and sells products in more than 100 countries. As of 2009, the company employed approximately 5,500 people with revenues exceeding USD 2.5 billion.

Industry
Recreational Vehicles & Powersports Manufacturing
Address
Valcourt, Quebec, Canada (headquarters)
Employees
5500
Founded
2003

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of regulated personal data including passports and personal identifying information, as well as sensitive business documents such as NDAs and confidential agreements, constituting a breach of both PII and proprietary corporate data at a large multinational manufacturer.

Ransomxx claims to have exfiltrated data from BRP including confidential agreements, NDAs, personal data, and passports. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, suggesting exfiltration and public release of sensitive documents.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Confidential agreements
  • Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
  • Personal data
  • Passports

What the group claims

BRP Inc. is the holding company for Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., operating as BRP, a Canadian manufacturer of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, side by sides, motorcycles, and personal watercraft. It was founded in 2003, when the Recreational Products Division of Bombardier Inc. was spun-off and sold to a group of investors consisting of Bain Capital, the Bombardier-Beaudoin family and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. Bombardier Inc., was founded in 1942 as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée (Bombardier Snowmobile Limited) by Joseph-Armand Bombardier at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. As of October 6, 2009, BRP had about 5,500 employees; its revenues in 2007 were above US$2.5 billion. BRP has manufacturing facilities in five countries: Canada, the United States (Wisconsin, Illinois, North Carolina, Arkansas, Michigan and Minnesota), Mexico, Finland, and Austria. The company's products are sold in more than 100 countries, some of which have their own direct-sales network. BRP's products include the Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Can-Am ATVs and Can-Am motorcycles, Sea-Doo personal watercraft, and Rotax engines. The Ski-Doo was ranked 17th place on CBC Television's The Greatest Canadian Invention in 2007. Confidential agreements, NDA's, personal data, passports, etc.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomexx

RansomEXX is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in May 2020, targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on extracting ransom payments through encryption and data theft tactics. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with suspected ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminals based on code analysis and operational patterns observed by security researchers. RansomEXX operators typically gain initial access through exploiting public-facing applications, particularly targeting vulnerable VPN appliances and remote desktop services, before deploying their custom ransomware payload which uses strong encryption algorithms and is often preceded by data exfiltration to enable double extortion schemes where stolen data is threatened to be publicly released if ransom demands are not met. The group has been responsible for several high-profile attacks including incidents against government entities and major corporations, with documented cases involving ransoms in the millions of dollars, though specific victim details are often kept confidential by affected organizations. Based on recent threat intelligence reporting, RansomEXX continues to maintain active operations as of 2024, with ongoing campaigns targeting the technology and healthcare sectors primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 86 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2020; most recent post June 20, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ransom X, Defray777, Defray-777, Defray 2018.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 23, 2022Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) listed by Ransomexxon the group's public leak site
Records
5.500 employees
Ransom demanded
$2.5B

Other recent disclosures by Ransomexx

Ransomexx has been linked to 86 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ransomexx dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomexx means Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Ransomexx'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.