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Pierre Fabre

Claimed by Revil · listed 5 years ago

64m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 31, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Revil
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Sector
Chemical
Listed on leak site
Mar 31, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pierre Fabre is a French pharmaceutical and dermo-cosmetics group headquartered in Castres, France (with registered offices in Boulogne-Billancourt). The group develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines, over-the-counter health products, and dermo-cosmetic brands such as Avène, Ducray, and Klorane. It is the second-largest private pharmaceutical group in France and distributes products in over 130 countries.

Industry
Pharmaceutical & Dermo-cosmetics
Address
45 Place Abel Gance, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Employees
10000+
Founded
1962

Attack summary

Severity: high — Pierre Fabre is a major pharmaceutical manufacturer; the 'data_published' status confirms actual data exfiltration and release by REvil, likely involving sensitive business, R&D, and personal data at significant scale, though the absence of a captured leak post prevents confirmation of regulated PII or medical data at the level required for critical.

REvil claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack against Pierre Fabre; the disclosed status indicates data was published, suggesting exfiltration and/or encryption of company data occurred, though the specific volume and categories of data published are not detailed in the captured post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate business data
  • Pharmaceutical research and development files
  • Employee records
  • Financial records
  • Customer and partner data

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Revil

REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, was a highly sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in April 2019 and quickly became one of the most prolific and financially successful cybercriminal organizations, primarily motivated by financial gain. The group is believed to have originated from Russia, operating as a RaaS model where core developers rented their ransomware tools to affiliate criminals, and maintained connections to the now-defunct GandCrab ransomware operation with some researchers suggesting personnel overlap. REvil primarily gained initial access through exploiting vulnerabilities in remote desktop protocol implementations, phishing campaigns, and supply chain attacks, employing double extortion tactics where they exfiltrated sensitive data before encryption and threatened to publish it on their "Happy Blog" leak site if ransoms were not paid, using advanced encryption methods that made file recovery nearly impossible without payment. The group conducted several high-profile attacks including the devastating supply chain attack against Kaseya in July 2021 that affected thousands of downstream customers, attacks on major corporations like JBS Foods, and demanded ransoms reaching up to $70 million, ultimately leading to increased law enforcement attention and pressure from international authorities. Following coordinated law enforcement actions and mounting pressure from the U.S. and Russian governments in late 2021, REvil's infrastructure was taken down and the group ceased operations, with several suspected members reportedly arrested by Russian authorities. The group has been linked to 96 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 26, 2019; most recent post November 28, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Sodinokibi.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 31, 2021Pierre Fabre listed by Revilon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Revil

Revil has been linked to 96 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Revil dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Chemical sector, which has 2 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Pierre Fabre is reported in France, a country with 612 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Revil means Pierre Fabre 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 Revil'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.