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Epi du Rouergue

Claimed by Nova · listed 6 months ago

6m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 6, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Jan 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Epi du Rouergue is a French company operating in the agriculture and food production sector, likely involved in cereal or grain processing given the name ('Epi' meaning 'ear of grain' and 'Rouergue' being a historical region in the Aveyron department of southern France). No public website was available to confirm further operational details or scale.

Industry
Agriculture and Food Production / Milling or Grain Processing

Attack summary

Severity: high — 200 GB of data confirmed published including customer data and call records, indicating significant exfiltration of business and potentially personal data; the group explicitly states the company's customers are affected and has shared records with mass-claim facilitators.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have encrypted the company's systems on 06/01/2026 and subsequently leaked 200 GB of data on 22/01/2026 after the company did not engage. The group states it has provided records of calls to mass claim companies as proof and intends to publish such records for all future non-cooperating victims.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Encrypted company files
  • Customer data
  • Call records
  • Mass claim company records

What the group claims

L'Epi du Rouergue is a bakery and pastry shop located in the Aveyron region, operating 12 stores across the Tarn and Aveyron departments and participating in over 80 markets in the South-West of France. The company specializes in a variety of handmade products including breads, pastries, cakes, sandwiches, and traditional Aveyron specialties like fouace. With a commitment to freshness, their products are made without freezing, ensuring high-quality offerings for their customers. Founded in 1973 by a group of local bakers, L'Epi du Rouergue has grown to employ around 250 staff members and offers online ordering with home delivery options

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Nova Blog NOVA Blog | PGP/Contact | Affiliate Program | AI-Assist Agent | Department of Support MAY 07, 2026 Desysweb Desysweb is a comprehensive technology solutions integrator specializing in telecommunications and IT services, including managed services and a Security Operation Center. With over 200 clients and more than 13 years of experience, they offer personalized consulting, high-quality materials, and competitive pricing. The company is ISO 27001:2022 certified, ensuring robust information security and data protection. Desysweb operates nationally with a presence in eight provinces and is committed to delivering tailored projects and 24/7 customer support through a team of certified engineers. - Los sistemas de la empresa están encriptados con más de 60 mil archivos en múltiples servidores. Tienes tiempo de contactarte con nuestro departamento a través de los canales indicados en el archivo de recuperación que está dentro de los sistemas encriptados. Una vez que termine la cuenta regresiva, ya no será posible recuperar la información y tus datos se perderán. Estamos listos para desencriptar cada uno de los archivos. Contáctanos cuanto antes. Business Services Software Test…

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 183 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 6, 2026Epi du Rouergue listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Epi du Rouergue is reported in France, a country with 612 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Epi du Rouergue 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 nova'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.