Ransomware victim disclosure

VODAFONE

Claimed by lapsus$ · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 29, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: lapsus$
Status: Data leaked
Country: DE
Sector: Telecommunication
Listed on leak site: May 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vodafone is one of the largest telecommunications companies in Europe and Africa, operating consumer and business services across dozens of markets. The company provides mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of customers globally.

Industry: Telecommunications

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of highly sensitive operational and development data including infrastructure, source code, and network topology from a major global telecommunications provider. This enables potential follow-on attacks and infrastructure compromise at massive scale.

LAPSUS$ claims to have exfiltrated Vodafone's full infrastructure, source code, GitHub repositories, and internal network maps. No ransom demand is stated; data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Full infrastructure documentation
Source code repositories
GitHub tree/development assets
Internal network maps

What the group claims

Full Infrastructure, Source Code, GitHub Tree & Internal Network Maps

Sources

Victim sitevodafone.com

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About lapsus$

Lapsus$ is a financially motivated cybercriminal group that emerged in December 2021, gaining notoriety for their aggressive extortion tactics and high-profile targeting of major corporations and government entities. The group is believed to have originated from South America, particularly Brazil, with suspected ties to young hackers operating independently rather than as a traditional ransomware-as-a-service operation, though they have demonstrated sophisticated coordination and insider recruitment capabilities. Lapsus$ primarily relies on social engineering techniques, SIM swapping, and insider threats to gain initial access to target networks, often recruiting employees through bribes or coercion rather than relying on traditional malware delivery methods, and they frequently employ data theft and public leak tactics for extortion rather than always deploying encryption-based ransomware. The group has conducted notable attacks against major technology companies including Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, and Okta, as well as targeting organizations across France, the United States, Brazil, Germany, and Canada, with a particular focus on consumer services, education, government facilities, and critical manufacturing sectors, leading to significant law enforcement attention and arrests of suspected members. Following arrests of key members by Brazilian and UK authorities in 2022, the group's activity has significantly diminished, though some security researchers suggest remnants may still be operational under different identities. The group has been linked to 24 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 10, 2021; most recent post May 31, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 29, 2026VODAFONE listed by lapsus$on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, VODAFONE is reported in DE, a country with 334 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.