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IKEA Morocco IKEA Kuwait

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 4 years ago

44m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 28, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Vicesociety
Status
Data leaked
Country
Morocco
Sector
Retail & Consumer
Listed on leak site
Nov 28, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

IKEA Morocco and IKEA Kuwait are franchise or licensed retail operations of the global IKEA brand, selling home furnishings, furniture, and household goods. IKEA is one of the world's largest furniture retailers, operating through a network of large-format stores. The specific regional entities targeted serve customers in Morocco and Kuwait respectively.

Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods – Home Furnishings

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration; however, no details on the nature, volume, or sensitivity of the data are provided in the leak post, and no proof files or data inventory are described, limiting severity assessment to medium.

Vicesociety claims an attack on IKEA Morocco and IKEA Kuwait with data published, suggesting exfiltration of company data; the leak post text is primarily marketing copy from IKEA, with no explicit description of the data stolen or encryption activity.

medium

What the group claims

We believe that no matter what we do in life, we should always try to be the absolute best at it. At IKEA we focus on being the best at ordinary everyday things. Because to us, the ordinary everyday contains the best of life. We want to be Extraordinary at the ordinary for you.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Vicesociety

Vicesociety is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through targeting critical infrastructure and public service organizations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undetermined by public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established RaaS model. Vicesociety primarily gains initial access through exploitation of public-facing applications and credential-based attacks, with documented cases showing they particularly focus on compromising remote access services and vulnerable web applications before deploying their ransomware payload across victim networks. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting educational institutions, government agencies, and healthcare organizations, with their 188 documented victims concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Spain, indicating a focus on English-speaking and Western European entities. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively detailed in major public threat intelligence reports from CISA or FBI advisories, the group's consistent targeting of critical sectors like education and healthcare has drawn attention from security researchers monitoring threats to essential services. Vicesociety remains active as of recent threat intelligence assessments, continuing their operations against similar target sectors with no documented law enforcement disruption or significant operational changes. The group has been linked to 188 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2021; most recent post June 20, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: VICE SOCIETY.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 28, 2022IKEA Morocco IKEA Kuwait listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Vicesociety

Vicesociety has been linked to 188 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, IKEA Morocco IKEA Kuwait is reported in Morocco.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Vicesociety means IKEA Morocco IKEA Kuwait 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Vicesociety'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.