Was pilini.bg hit by ransomware?

pilini.bg was listed by the ransomed ransomware operation (Bulgaria), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the ransomed ransomware group?

ransomed is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the pilini.bg breach?

ransomed published data attributed to pilini.bg. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Pilini

listed as pilini.bg · Claimed by Ransomed · listed 3 years ago

$8.000

Ransom

demanded

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 9, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomed
Status: Data leaked
Country: Bulgaria
Sector: Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site: Sep 9, 2023
Ransom demanded: $8.000

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pilini is a Bulgarian women's fashion retailer operating physical stores in Varna and Ruse, as well as an online shop at pilini.bg. The company sells clothing, footwear, handbags, and accessories, with free delivery offered on orders above a threshold. It appears to be a small-to-medium independent retailer with at least two retail locations and a warehouse.

Industry: Women's Fashion Retail & E-commerce
Address: гр. Варна, бул. Княз Борис 56, Варна, Bulgaria (main store); гр. Русе, бул. Липник 121, Mall Rousse, ниво 0, Ruse, Bulgaria (second store); гр. Варна, ул. Цариброд 92, Варна, Bulgaria (warehouse)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published and exfiltration is claimed, but no specific sensitive regulated data (e.g., payment card data, large-scale PII) is confirmed, no data volume is provided, and the ransom is low ($8,000), suggesting a small-scale target. The e-commerce nature raises some PII concern but evidence is insufficient for 'high' or 'critical'.

The ransomware group 'Ransomed' claims to have exfiltrated all data from Pilini and demanded an $8,000 ransom for the return of backups. The disclosure status indicates data has been published, though no specific data volume was stated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business data (unspecified)
Customer account data (potential, given e-commerce platform)
Backup files

What the group claims

You have been hacked, all your data is now mine, if you want to get your backups back you will have to pay us.We require a ransom of $8,000

Sources

Victim sitepilini.bg

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ransomed

The ransomed ransomware group is a relatively new cybercriminal organization that emerged in August 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple countries. Based on their targeting patterns across Japan, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, and Bulgaria, the group appears to operate internationally without clear geographic limitations, though their country of origin and potential affiliations with other ransomware groups remain undetermined due to limited public intelligence reporting. Given the recent emergence of this group and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or established security researchers. The group has claimed approximately 68 victims across their identified target countries since becoming active, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have been publicly reported by law enforcement or security organizations. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active with continued victim claims, though the limited public documentation suggests they operate as a lower-profile ransomware operation compared to more established and widely-tracked ransomware families. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 21, 2023; most recent post October 30, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 9, 2023pilini.bg listed by ransomedon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $8.000

Other recent disclosures by ransomed

ransomed has been linked to 68 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, pilini.bg is reported in Bulgaria, a country with 23 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ransomed means pilini.bg 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 ransomed'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.