Was FIO hit by ransomware?

FIO was listed by the 8Base ransomware operation (France), 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 8Base ransomware group?

8Base 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 FIO breach?

8Base published data attributed to FIO. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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FIO

Claimed by 8Base · listed 1 year ago

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 23, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: 8Base
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jan 23, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FIO (Fourniture Industrielle de l'Ouest) is a French industrial components and equipment distributor founded in 1972. The company specializes in automation, hydraulics, pneumatics, and modular aluminum systems, offering consulting, design, integration, and distribution services. Headquartered in Nantes with regional branches, FIO serves clients across aerospace, automotive, medical, pharmaceutical, defence, and food processing sectors.

Industry: Industrial Components & Equipment Distribution; Automation, Hydraulics, Pneumatics
Address: Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), France; branches in Paris region and Rennes (Brittany)
Founded: 1972

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status indicates exfiltration occurred, and FIO handles sensitive client data across regulated sectors (medical, pharmaceutical, defence, aerospace), but the leak post itself contains only publicly available company information with no specific proof files or detailed data inventory disclosed.

8Base claims to have attacked FIO and exfiltrated data. The leak post provides company background information but contains no explicit statement of what data was taken, encrypted, or the operational impact of the attack.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

company records
client information
technical designs
business documentation

What the group claims

FIO (Fourniture Industrielle de l'Ouest) is a French company specializing in providing technical solutions in the fields of automation, hydraulics, pneumatics and modular aluminum systems.The company was founded in 1972 and is engaged in consulting, design, integration and distribution of equipment. The main office of the company is located in the city of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), and there are also branches in the Paris region and in Rennes (Brittany).FIO positions itself as a reliable partner for clients in the west of France and in the Paris region, providing innovative solutions tailored to the needs of customers, thanks to the high qualifications of its specialists.www.fio.fr

Sources

Victim sitefio.fr
Leak posthttp://xfycpauc22t5jsmfjcaz2oydrrrfy75zuk6chr32664bsscq4fgyaaqd.onion/company/7890515

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About 8Base

8Base is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a rapid escalation in activity with 458 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation targeting predominantly Western markets. Based on publicly available victim data, 8Base appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against business services and manufacturing sectors, with the United States representing their primary target geography, followed by France, Brazil, Italy, and the United Kingdom, indicating a preference for developed economies with established digital infrastructure. The group has notably impacted healthcare and technology sectors alongside their primary business services focus, suggesting a broad targeting approach rather than sector-specific specialization. Given the group's recent emergence in 2023 and continued victim accumulation across diverse geographic and sectoral targets, 8Base appears to remain active as of current reporting periods, though detailed technical methodologies, specific attack vectors, and notable high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security agencies. The group has been linked to 458 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 23, 2023; most recent post February 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 23, 2025FIO listed by 8Baseon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by 8Base

8Base has been linked to 458 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, FIO is reported in France, a country with 612 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by 8Base means FIO 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, CERT-FR (France), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on 8Base'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.