Was CMA CGM (french carrier, container line) hit by ransomware?

CMA CGM (french carrier, container line) was listed by the Ragnarlocker ransomware operation (France), 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 Ragnarlocker ransomware group?

Ragnarlocker 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 CMA CGM (french carrier, container line) breach?

Ragnarlocker published data attributed to CMA CGM (french carrier, container line). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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CMA CGM (french carrier, container line)

Claimed by Ragnarlocker · listed 6 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 28, 2020
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ragnarlocker
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Transportation Systems
Listed on leak site: Sep 28, 2020

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CMA CGM is a French multinational container shipping and logistics company headquartered in Marseille, France. It is one of the world's largest container carriers, operating a fleet of vessels serving over 420 ports across more than 160 countries. The group also encompasses logistics subsidiaries including CEVA Logistics.

Industry: Container Shipping & Logistics
Address: 4 Quai d'Arenc, 13002 Marseille, France
Employees: 150000
Founded: 1978

Attack summary

Severity: critical — CMA CGM is a critical global logistics and transportation infrastructure operator with ~150,000 employees worldwide; confirmed data publication by Ragnar Locker involving personal and business data at scale qualifies as critical, given the volume of PII and the company's role in global supply chain infrastructure.

Ragnar Locker claimed an attack on CMA CGM involving data exfiltration and published stolen data. The compromised data reportedly included personal and business records belonging to the company and its employees.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal data
Business records
Internal corporate documents
Customer information

Sources

Victim sitecma-cgm.fr

Source

Indexed 6 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ragnarlocker

**Overview:** Ragnarlocker is a financially motivated ransomware operation that emerged in April 2020, conducting targeted attacks against enterprise organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on maximizing profit through encryption and data theft extortion tactics. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though they operate as an independent ransomware family rather than offering Ransomware-as-a-Service capabilities to other criminal actors. **Attack Methodology:** Ragnarlocker operators typically gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that employs strong encryption algorithms. The group practices double extortion tactics, exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish stolen information on dedicated leak sites if ransom demands are not met, often targeting network shares and attempting to delete shadow copies to prevent recovery. **Notable Campaigns:** The group has successfully compromised 128 documented victims across multiple countries, with significant targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including energy, finance, and telecommunications organizations, though specific high-profile incidents and ransom amounts have not been widely disclosed in public threat intelligence reports. **Current Status:** Based on available public reporting, Ragnarlocker remains an active threat as of recent security advisories, continuing to target organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group has been linked to 128 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 1, 2020; most recent post October 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Ragnar Locker.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 28, 2020CMA CGM (french carrier, container line) listed by Ragnarlockeron the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ragnarlocker

Ragnarlocker has been linked to 128 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 Transportation Systems sector, which has 28 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CMA CGM (french carrier, container line) is reported in France, a country with 612 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ragnarlocker means CMA CGM (french carrier, container line) 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, CERT-FR (France), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Ragnarlocker'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.