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Fresca Group

listed as Fresca · Claimed by Nokoyawa · listed 3 years ago

100 GB
Data size
38m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 23, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nokoyawa
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site
May 23, 2023
Data size
100 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fresca Group is a leading privately-owned supplier of fresh fruit, vegetables and salad crops in the United Kingdom, headquartered in Paddock Wood, Kent. The group operates across growing, wholesaling, importing, logistics and packing, serving major UK retailers, hospitality, foodservice and cruise line sectors. It reports a combined annual group turnover of £523 million across its portfolio of businesses.

Industry
Fresh Produce Supply & Distribution
Address
The Fresh Produce Centre, Transfesa Road, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6UT, United Kingdom
Founded
2004

Attack summary

Severity: high — 100 GB of private data has been confirmed exfiltrated and published by the group against a major UK food supply company with £523M turnover; while the data types are not itemised, the scale and disclosed status represent significant business data exposure from a large critical supply chain operator.

Nokoyawa claims to have exfiltrated approximately 100 GB of private data from Fresca Group and has published it, indicating confirmed exfiltration with data now fully disclosed. No encryption claim is explicitly stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Private business data (unspecified, ~100 GB)

What the group claims

Founded in 2004, Fresca is headquartered in Kent, United Kingdom. Fresca Group is a largest privately-owned supplier of fruit and vegetables in the UK.We have successfully downloaded ~100GB of private data. Enjoy...

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including healthcare, non-profit, education, finance, and energy. The group has claimed at least 36 victims since its emergence, with attacks predominantly focused on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and the Philippines. While detailed technical analysis of Nokoyawa's operations remains limited in public reporting, the group appears to follow conventional ransomware tactics targeting critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. Their targeting of healthcare and educational institutions suggests they operate without the sector restrictions that some other ransomware groups have adopted. Notable campaigns include attacks across their preferred geographic regions, though specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security firms. As of current reporting, Nokoyawa appears to remain an active threat, though the group's relatively recent emergence means long-term operational patterns and potential law enforcement disruption efforts are still developing. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 9, 2022; most recent post August 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 23, 2023Fresca listed by Nokoyawaon the group's public leak site
Data size
100 GB

Other recent disclosures by Nokoyawa

Nokoyawa has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Food & Agriculture sector, which has 187 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Fresca is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Nokoyawa means Fresca 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Nokoyawa'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.