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James Briggs Limited

Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

38m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 14, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Snatch
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jun 14, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

James Briggs Limited is a British manufacturer focused on the development and production of specialised branded products. The company emphasises continuous research and development in formulations, packaging, and product design. It operates across multiple specialised brands within the UK manufacturing sector.

Industry
Specialised Chemical & Consumer Product Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the Snatch group, indicating successful exfiltration and public disclosure of company data. While the specific data types and volume are not detailed in the post, a confirmed data publication event from a known ransomware operator constitutes a high-severity incident for a manufacturing business.

The Snatch ransomware group has published data pertaining to James Briggs Limited, indicating a data exfiltration and/or encryption attack. The disclosed status is 'data_published', suggesting that stolen data has been released or made available on the group's leak site.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Internal business documents
  • Company operational data

What the group claims

We are a British manufacturer, committed to the continuous innovation of our extensive range of specialised brands. Through ongoing research and development, we continue to develop market-changing formulations, packaging and product design.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 14, 2023James Briggs Limited listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, James Briggs Limited is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means James Briggs Limited 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 Snatch'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.