Disclosure context

About Lorenz

Lorenz is a ransomware group that emerged in January 2020 and operates primarily for financial gain, having claimed approximately 78 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a focus on English-speaking nations including the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Lorenz primarily targets healthcare, finance, automotive, construction, and retail sectors, suggesting they may opportunistically attack organizations with valuable data and limited security resources rather than following a specific geopolitical agenda. While detailed technical analysis of their attack methodology has not been extensively published by major security firms like Mandiant or government agencies such as CISA, the group appears to follow typical ransomware deployment patterns common to financially-motivated cybercriminal organizations. Public documentation of specific high-profile campaigns, notable victims, or significant law enforcement actions against Lorenz remains limited in open-source intelligence reporting. Based on available victim data extending beyond 2020, the group appears to have maintained some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status have not been widely published by authoritative sources in the threat intelligence community. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 12, 2020; most recent post December 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 10, 2023Chestertons Inc. listed by Lorenzon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Real Estate sector. Geographically, Chestertons Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Chestertons Inc.

Claimed by Lorenz · listed 3 years ago

40m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 10, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lorenz
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Real Estate
Listed on leak site: Jan 10, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Chestertons is a global real estate network offering property sales, lettings, valuation, management, and development services across multiple continents including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. The firm specialises in luxury and high-end residential and commercial properties, operating offices in markets such as the UAE, UK, Gibraltar, Cyprus, Barbados, and numerous other countries. It positions itself as combining international reach with local market expertise.

Industry: International Luxury Real Estate Services
Employees: 201-500

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is listed as published (data_published) by Lorenz, a group known for exfiltrating data before or instead of encrypting; a global luxury real estate firm would hold significant volumes of client PII, financial transaction records, property ownership data, and confidential business documents across multiple jurisdictions, making a confirmed publication high severity even without specific data inventory details.

The Lorenz ransomware group claims to have attacked Chestertons Inc. and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating data has been released; however, no specific claims regarding encryption, exfiltration volume, or data categories are captured in the available leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Unknown — no leak post content captured

Sources

Victim sitechestertons.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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