Disclosure context

About apt73

APT73 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in April 2024, with financial motivation as their primary driver based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid growth in their operational tempo, accumulating 78 documented victims within their first months of activity. Their targeting methodology shows a preference for English-speaking markets and major economies, with the United Kingdom and United States representing their primary focus areas, followed by significant activity in India, Brazil, and France. The group exhibits a clear preference for high-value sectors including business services, technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations, suggesting a calculated approach to victim selection based on potential payment capability and operational impact. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, or organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities and infrastructure requires additional intelligence gathering and documentation by security researchers. The group has been linked to 141 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post April 27, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Eraleign.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 27, 2026lamaisonducitron.com listed by apt73on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 159 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, lamaisonducitron.com is reported in FR, a country with 238 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Maison Gannac (La Maison du Citron)

listed as lamaisonducitron.com · Claimed by apt73 · listed 23 days ago

23d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: apt73
Status: Data leaked
Country: FR
Sector: Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site: Apr 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Maison Gannac, operating under the brand La Maison du Citron, is a French family-run specialty retailer based in the Menton region selling IGP-certified Menton lemon products including Limoncello BIO, jams, spreads, olive oils, vinegars, syrups, and gift boxes. The company sells directly via its e-commerce website and operates a nursery (pépinière) for citrus trees. It appears to be a small artisan producer and retailer focused on premium regional citrus specialties from the French Riviera.

Industry: Specialty Food & Beverage Retail (Citrus Products & Limoncello)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration rather than a mere listing; however, the target is a small artisan e-commerce retailer with no indication of large-scale regulated data (e.g. medical or financial records). Customer PII and order data from an e-commerce platform are likely at stake, warranting medium severity.

The group APT73 claims to have published data from lamaisonducitron.com, with the disclosure status marked as data_published. The leak post provides only a brief description ('Lemon product store') with no detail on encryption, exfiltration volume, or specific data categories compromised.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer order data
Personal customer information (names, addresses)
E-commerce transaction records

What the group claims

Lemon product store.

Sources

Victim sitelamaisonducitron.com
Leak posthttp://basherq53eniermxovo3bkduw5qqq5bkqcml3qictfmamgvmzovykyqd.onion/page_company.php?id=79

Source

Indexed 23 days ago

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