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Bacton Logistics

listed as Bacton Transport Services · Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 1 year ago

743 GB
Data size
$740
Ransom
demanded
14m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 22, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Ransomhouse
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site
Apr 22, 2025
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bacton Logistics is a UK-based transportation and logistics provider with over 90 years of operational history. Operating from two strategically positioned facilities in Suffolk, the company specializes in road haulage, freight distribution, customs handling, and contract logistics, moving approximately 3,000 tonnes daily across 600 consignments.

Industry
Road Haulage, Freight Distribution & Contract Logistics
Address
Suffolk, United Kingdom
Employees
150-200
Founded
1934

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Large data volume (743 GB) exfiltrated and encryption confirmed, but no published proof files shown in excerpt and no sensitive data categories explicitly identified. No operational disruption to critical infrastructure stated.

Ransomhouse claims to have encrypted Bacton Logistics' systems. The group alleges exfiltration of 743 GB of data but provides no specific details on data categories or operational impact in the available post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business operational records
  • Client information
  • Logistics/shipment data
  • Internal systems

What the group claims

We offer a great range of road transport solutions to our clients, combining our technical expertise and products into packages designed to meet the requirements and budget of businesses throughout East Anglia: Contract Distributionis for clients requiring nationwide transport services who also seek the additional benefits and stability of a long-term partner. Our aim is to deliver high quality, value-added transport and management services to help drive down costs and maximise efficiency across your operations. Network Servicesprovides clients with a flexible transport service based upon our wide range of services for pallet freight, groupage/LCL and full loads; all offering nationwide delivery to UK, Eire and Europe. We will match your requirements to the right service, simplifying your sourcing process and enabling quicker routing decisions. Logistics Managementoffers solutions for clients sourcing products overseas and importing through the Port of Felixstowe.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
```
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Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating primarily for financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent cybercriminal organization rather than a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. Ransomhouse employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if victims refuse to pay the demanded ransom. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with documented attacks against 187 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, focusing heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented by major security firms, the group's consistent victim count and geographic distribution indicate sustained operational capability since their emergence. As of current reporting, Ransomhouse remains active with no known major law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 210 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 1, 2021; most recent post June 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HOUSE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 22, 2025Bacton Transport Services listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site
Data size
743 GB
Ransom demanded
$740

Other recent disclosures by Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse has been linked to 210 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ransomhouse dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Bacton Transport Services is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomhouse means Bacton Transport Services 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 Ransomhouse'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.