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Ben Line Agencies

listed as benlineagencies.com · Claimed by Lv · listed 5 years ago

55m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 9, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lv
Status
Data leaked
Country
Singapore
Sector
Transportation & Logistics
Listed on leak site
Dec 9, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ben Line Agencies is a Singapore-headquartered provider of liner and NVOCC agency services, marine agency services, integrated logistics, and chemical logistics solutions. The company operates across the Asia Pacific region with a presence in over 20 countries including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the USA. It serves shipping lines, vessel operators, and logistics clients through its two main divisions: Ben Line Agencies and Ben Line Logistics.

Industry
Shipping Agency & Logistics Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) by the LV group against a regional logistics and shipping agency with operations across 20+ countries, suggesting confirmed exfiltration of significant business data including potentially commercial contracts, client records, and operational information across multiple jurisdictions.

The LV ransomware group claims to have compromised Ben Line Agencies and lists the disclosure status as data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. No further details on the scope of encryption or specific data categories were captured in the leak post.

high

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Lv

Lv is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with relatively low visibility compared to major ransomware families but maintaining consistent activity across multiple regions and sectors. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding Lv's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 115 documented victims across diverse sectors indicates they employ conventional ransomware deployment techniques. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and business services, with notable geographic focus on Russia, France, Malaysia, the United States, and the Netherlands, spanning sectors including energy, telecommunications, business services, media, and non-profit organizations. Current intelligence suggests Lv remains active as of recent reporting, though the group maintains a lower profile than prominent ransomware families and has not been subject to major law enforcement disruption operations. The group has been linked to 115 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 22, 2021; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 9, 2021benlineagencies.com listed by Lvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lv

Lv has been linked to 115 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Lv dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation & Logistics sector, which has 180 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, benlineagencies.com is reported in Singapore, a country with 76 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lv means benlineagencies.com 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, SingCERT (Singapore), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Lv'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.