Was Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd hit by ransomware?

Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd was listed by the Sarcoma 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 Sarcoma ransomware group?

Sarcoma 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 Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd breach?

Sarcoma published data attributed to Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd (~100 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 1 year ago

100 GB

Data size

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 7, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sarcoma
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Mar 7, 2025
Data size: 100 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AJ Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd is a UK-based electrical services company operating since 1983, providing domestic and commercial electrical installations across the south coast. The company employs over 50 fully qualified engineers and apprentices, with an office team based in Brighton.

Industry: Electrical Contracting & Installation
Address: Brighton, United Kingdom
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1983

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of 100 GB of data from a mid-sized company with ~50+ employees; likely contains business, employee, and customer information. No evidence of regulated data (medical, financial) or critical infrastructure impact, but scale and employee count suggest moderate sensitivity.

Sarcoma claims to have exfiltrated 100 GB of data from AJ Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd. The group has published the data archive with no specific detail on data contents or operational disruption.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business files
Office records
Employee information
Customer records
Project documentation

What the group claims

Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd AJT undertake all aspects of electrical installations throughout the south coast. Whether it be domestic or commercial, big or small- we have the capability and experience to meet your electrical needs. From an initial team of two electricians and an apprentice in 1983- we currently employ over fifty, fully qualified engineers and apprentices who receive continual training while working with us. The electricians who work for us are all hard-working and pay attention to detail. We have an apprentice scheme, which trains high standard engineers; however, we also employ qualified electricians. Here at AJT we are proud of our apprenticeship programme. We feel it is important for the company and the industry to bring through well trained qualified electricians There is also a dedicated and knowledgeable office team based in the centre of Brighton who are happy to answer any queries relating to our line of work. At AJT we pride ourselves on our professionalism, reliability and courtesy. We are a friendly and efficient force to be reckoned with.Geo: UK - Leak size: 100 GB Archive - Contains: Files

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 7, 2025Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 100 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 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, Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors Ltd is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means Aj Taylor Electrical Contractors 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 Sarcoma'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.