Was J McCann & Co Ltd hit by ransomware?

J McCann & Co Ltd was listed by the Medusa ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 Medusa ransomware group?

Medusa 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 J McCann & Co Ltd breach?

Medusa published data attributed to J McCann & Co Ltd (~146.60 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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J McCann & Co Ltd

Claimed by Medusa · listed 1 year ago

146.60 GB

Data size

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 20, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Medusa
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2025
Data size: 146.60 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

J McCann & Co Ltd is a leading UK-based civil and electrical engineering construction company operating since 1967. They deliver integrated infrastructure solutions for major road, rail, and airport projects across the UK for both public and private sector clients, with services including professional services, highways, multi-utilities, and special projects.

Industry: Civil & Electrical Engineering Construction
Address: 110 Nottingham Road, Chilwell, Nottingham NG9 6DQ, United Kingdom
Founded: 1967

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 146.60 GB of data from a major infrastructure company with UK-wide operations; exposure of business and project data poses significant operational and reputational risk, particularly given the sensitive nature of infrastructure construction contracts and client relationships.

Medusa claims to have exfiltrated 146.60 GB of data from J McCann & Co Ltd. The group has published the data; no specific details on data categories or operational encryption are stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Project documentation
Client information
Operational data

What the group claims

J McCann & Co Ltd is a company that operates in the commercial and residential construction industry. J McCann & Co Ltd corporate office is located in 110 Nottingham Road Chilwell Nottingham NG9 6DQ UK. The total amount of data leakage is 146.60 GB

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Medusa

Medusa, also known as MedusaLocker, is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022 and has since compromised 568 known victims across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear from publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a documented Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Medusa primarily targets organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Australia, with a focus on business services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors, employing typical ransomware tactics including data encryption and likely exfiltration for double extortion purposes, though specific technical methodologies and initial access vectors have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports. While the group has maintained a relatively high victim count since its emergence, detailed information about specific notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or major ransom demands has not been widely reported by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, Medusa appears to remain active in the threat landscape, continuing to target organizations across their established geographic and sectoral preferences. The group has been linked to 635 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 15, 2022; most recent post May 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: MedusaLocker, MEDUSA LOCKER.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 20, 2025J McCann & Co Ltd listed by Medusaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 146.60 GB

Other recent disclosures by Medusa

Medusa has been linked to 635 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, J McCann & Co Ltd is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Medusa means J McCann & Co Ltd 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Medusa'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.