Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
listed as ZBW News · Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
May 3, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (zbw.eu) is the world's largest library for economics and business studies, operating locations in Kiel and Hamburg, Germany. It provides access to over 12 million economics publications via its EconBiz portal and hosts EconStor, an open-access disciplinary repository containing more than 187,000 articles and working papers. ZBW also conducts research in Open Science, Web Science, and Artificial Intelligence, serving as a knowledge-transfer hub between economic research and society.
- Industry
- Academic & Research Library (Economics)
- Address
- Düsternbrooker Weg 120, 24105 Kiel, Germany; Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
Attack summary
Severity: high — The group claims confirmed exfiltration of PII (employees and customers), contractual documents, and NDAs from a publicly-funded research institution; the presence of geopolitically sensitive materials (Ukraine conflict analysis) and personal data of potentially many academic/research stakeholders elevates severity, though no proof files have yet been published and scale is unquantified.The Royal ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from ZBW, including personal information of employees and customers, contracts, NDAs, and materials related to Ukraine conflict predictions and reviews, with publication of the data stated as forthcoming.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Employee personal information
- Customer personal information
- Contracts
- NDAs
- Ukraine conflict predictions and reviews
What the group claims
ZBW's disciplinary repository EconStor provides a large collection of more than 187,000 articles and working papers in Open Access. We are more than sure you understand what this organization had in open access. Personal information of their employees and customers, contracts, NDAs and even Ukraine conflict predictions and reviews.You can find here soon.
Sources
Source
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