Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsA.P.E.R.S (Association Pour l'Entraide et la Réinsertion Sociale)
listed as APERS · Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Nov 3, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileA.P.E.R.S is a French 1901 law non-profit association accredited by the Ministry of Justice and authorised by the judicial courts of Aix-en-Provence (since 1980) and Tarascon (since 1997). It provides victim support, criminal mediation, and judicial mandate services across 97 municipalities in Bouches-du-Rhône, assisting more than 8,000 victims per year including 800 emergency cases. The association employs socio-judicial workers, social workers, victim receptionists, and clinical psychologists alongside volunteers.
- Industry
- Victim Support & Judicial Services (Non-Profit / Justice Sector)
- Address
- 18 Avenue Laurent Vibert, 13090 Aix-en-Provence, France
- Founded
- 1980
Attack summary
Severity: critical — The attack involves confirmed exfiltration and darknet publication of highly sensitive PII belonging to crime victims, including potentially vulnerable individuals (trauma victims, emergency cases, minors via administrateur ad hoc), as well as judicial and criminal proceeding records — a category of regulated, sensitive data affecting over 8,000 individuals per year. The association itself has publicly confirmed the breach and data publication.The Ciphbit ransomware group claims to have both encrypted systems and exfiltrated personal data from A.P.E.R.S, subsequently publishing the stolen data on the darknet. The association itself has confirmed on its public website that a ransomware attack with personal data theft occurred and that the data was published on the darknet.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Personal data of crime victims
- Victim support case records
- Criminal mediation records
- Judicial mandate files
- Data of individuals involved in criminal proceedings
- Psychological assessment records
- Emergency victim intake data
What the group claims
A.P.E.R.S is a 1901 law association agreed with the Ministry of Justice and authorized by the judicial courts of Aix en Provence and Tarascon. It is developing geographically across the entire extent of these two jurisdictions for the victim support service and within the jurisdiction of the Aix-en-Provence TJ for the judicial activity service. The association is responsible for caring for victims in 97 municipalities that make up the 119 municipalities of Bouches-du-Rhône, or approximately more than 900,000 inhabitants. It began operating exclusively with volunteers for the execution of judicial mandates (judicial checks and personality investigations). The necessary professionalization of the workers subsequently led it to hire socio-judicial workers, social workers, victim receptionists and clinical psychologists. In 1991, the victim support service and the criminal mediation service were created. The A.P.E.R.S is authorized by the Ministry of Justice and operates within the jurisdiction of the judicial courts of Aix en Provence (since 1980) and Tarascon (since 1997). Helping victims is today one of the priorities of judicial policies. These now give victims a set of rights. The A.P.E.R.S victim assistance service supports all victims of criminal offenses, natural disasters, collective accidents or attacks and all victims of particularly traumatic violent situations.
Sources
- Victim siteapers13.com
Source
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