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Watchfinder & Co

Claimed by Everest · listed 1 year ago

11m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 23, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Everest
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Consumer Services
Listed on leak site
Jul 23, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Watchfinder & Co is a UK-based retailer of pre-owned luxury wristwatches, founded in 2002. The company operates both e-commerce and physical showrooms, specializing in authenticated and refurbished premium timepieces from brands including Rolex, Cartier, and Omega.

Industry
Luxury Goods & Jewelry - Pre-owned Watches
Founded
2002

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, the specific nature, volume, and sensitivity of the compromised data are not detailed in the available post excerpt, preventing a higher severity classification.

The Everest group claims to have compromised Watchfinder & Co and published exfiltrated data. Specific details on the scope of data exfiltration or operational impact are not provided in the available post excerpt.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Watchfinder & Co, founded in 2002 in the UK, is a leading retailer of pre-owned luxury wristwatches. It offers a wide range of premium brands like Rolex, Cartier, Omega, and many more. Pioneers in their field, they combine e-commerce capabilities with numerous physical stores and showrooms. The firm focuses on authenticity, providing thorough inspection and refurbishment processes for used watches.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Everest

Everest is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with a focus on profit-driven extortion campaigns against organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation exists regarding Everest's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their victim profile indicates they employ standard ransomware tactics targeting a diverse range of sectors including healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. Since their emergence, Everest has claimed responsibility for attacks against 339 victims across multiple countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Spain representing their primary geographic targets, though no specific high-profile incidents or major ransoms have been publicly documented by law enforcement or major security firms. As of current reporting, Everest appears to remain an active threat actor, though the limited public intelligence available suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent and well-documented criminal organizations. The group has been linked to 369 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post May 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 23, 2025Watchfinder & Co listed by Evereston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Everest

Everest has been linked to 369 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 Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Watchfinder & Co is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Everest means Watchfinder & Co 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 Everest'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.