Was Shred Station hit by ransomware?

Shred Station was listed by the Quantum ransomware operation (United Kingdom), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Quantum ransomware group?

Quantum is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Shred Station breach?

Quantum published data attributed to Shred Station. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Shred Station

Claimed by Quantum · listed 4 years ago

49m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 14, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Quantum
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jun 14, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Shred Station is a United Kingdom-based company specialising in high-security shredding and secure destruction of confidential and sensitive documents. The company operates as a business services provider, offering document destruction solutions to organisations that require compliant and secure disposal of sensitive materials. The scale of their operations and precise locations are not determinable from the available information.

Industry: Secure Document Destruction & Shredding Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (data_published status confirmed), meaning exfiltration occurred and data is now disclosed. As a secure document destruction company, Shred Station likely holds sensitive client data and records of confidential documents handled on behalf of third parties, raising the risk profile significantly. However, without confirmed PII at scale or regulated data specifics, critical is not warranted.

The Quantum ransomware group claims an attack on Shred Station and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of company data. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Confidential business documents
Sensitive client records
Internal company data

What the group claims

Shred Station understand that secure destruction of your confidential &/or sensitive documents is a serious business - hence we offer the very best in high security shredding services.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Quantum

Quantum is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on high-value targets across English-speaking nations. The group's geographic targeting patterns and operational characteristics suggest possible connections to established ransomware ecosystems, though specific attribution or confirmed affiliations with other threat actors remain undocumented in public reporting. Quantum operators typically employ double extortion tactics, combining data encryption with the threat of public data exposure to maximize pressure on victims, and their campaigns have consistently targeted sectors with critical operational dependencies including business services, manufacturing, and information technology infrastructure. The group has maintained a relatively low public profile compared to other major ransomware operations, with their 68 documented victims representing a more selective approach to target acquisition rather than broad-scale campaigns. Despite limited public law enforcement reporting specifically focused on Quantum operations, the group's continued activity pattern suggests they remain an active threat as of recent observations, though comprehensive operational details remain scarce in publicly available threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post December 9, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: QuantumLocker, Mount Locker, DagonLocker.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 14, 2022Shred Station listed by Quantumon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Quantum

Quantum has been linked to 68 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Shred Station is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Quantum means Shred Station 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 Quantum'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.