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Leekes Ltd

Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 24, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
NoEscape
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Retail & Consumer
Listed on leak site
Sep 24, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Leekes Ltd is a Welsh family retailer founded in 1897, operating five to seven stores across South Wales, South West England, and the Midlands. The company sells furniture, bathrooms, kitchens, bedrooms, home accessories, garden products, and DIY supplies. It trades both in-store and online via leekes.co.uk.

Industry
Home Furnishings & Retail
Address
South Wales / South West England / The Midlands, United Kingdom
Employees
51-200
Founded
1897

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is confirmed published by the ransomware group, indicating successful exfiltration of business data from a retail company that holds customer PII and financial records; while not a critical-sector target, the confirmed data publication elevates severity to high.

NoEscape claims to have attacked Leekes Ltd and the disclosure status is marked as data_published, indicating exfiltration and publication of company data. The specific data types and volume were not detailed in the truncated post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer records
  • Employee data
  • Financial documents
  • Business operational data

What the group claims

Leekes Ltd is a Welsh retailer based in South Wales, South West England and The Midlands. The company was founded in 1897, and currently has seven operating stores. The com...

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 24, 2023Leekes Ltd listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by NoEscape

NoEscape has been linked to 249 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 Retail & Consumer sector, which has 157 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Leekes Ltd is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by NoEscape means Leekes 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 NoEscape'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.