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Lucid

Claimed by Sovcali · listed 4 hours ago

35 GB
Data size
Today
Age
since listed · negotiating

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 24, 2026

Current state: Negotiating

At a glance

Group
Sovcali
Status
Negotiating
Sector
Automotive / Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 24, 2026
Data size
35 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lucid is an automotive manufacturer. No public site was available to confirm further details.

Industry
Automotive Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant proprietary automotive engineering data (CAE models, structural analysis, NVH simulations) representing core vehicle design intellectual property. Scale (35 GB) and sensitivity of technical specifications justify high severity.

Sovcali claims to have exfiltrated approximately 35 GB of technical data from Lucid, including finite element analysis (FEA) models, computational analysis files, and engineering reports related to vehicle components such as IC display housing and switch assemblies.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Finite element analysis (FEA/CAE) model files
  • Engineering simulation results (.h3d, .out, .spcf files)
  • Stiffness studies and strain-energy evaluations
  • NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) analyses
  • Displacement assessments
  • Technical summary reports (PowerPoint, Excel)

What the group claims

Ransomware group claims possession of approximately 35 GB of technical engineering data from Lucid, including finite element analysis files related to stiffness studies, strain-energy evaluations, displacement assessments, and NVH analyses for mid-sized IC display housing and Pull/Outboard Switch simulations.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Mon, Aug 24 · 02:49 AM
In line with our previously discussed approach, the proposed strategy to formally demonstrate to Lucid that we are in possession of their data consists of the controlled upload of approximately 35 GB of technical material.This dataset comprises finite element analysis (FEA/CAE) files, specifically .fem model files, .h3d result files, .out and .spcf output files, together with associated summary reports in .pptx and .xlsx formats. The materials focus on stiffness studies, strain-energy evaluations, displacement assessments, and NVH analyses relating to the mid-sized IC display housing and the Pull/Outboard Switch simulations.

Data the group says was taken

  • .fem model files
  • .h3d result files
  • .out output files
  • .spcf output files
  • .pptx summary reports
  • .xlsx summary reports

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Lucid

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Sovcali

Sovcali is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparently financial motivation, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and small known victim footprint. With only one confirmed victim recorded to date, the group remains obscure, and no attributions to a specific country of origin, threat actor collective, or ransomware-as-a-service infrastructure have been publicly documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time. What is known from available data is that Sovcali has demonstrated a targeting preference for the transportation sector within the United States, suggesting a degree of deliberate victim selection rather than opportunistic targeting, though the limited sample size makes definitive pattern analysis premature. No specific initial access vectors, encryption methods, extortion tactics, or toolsets have been publicly attributed to this group in open-source intelligence reporting. No notable high-profile campaigns, record ransoms, or law enforcement actions involving Sovcali have been publicly documented. Given its August 2026 first-observed date and minimal victim count, Sovcali should be considered an emerging and under-documented threat actor warranting continued monitoring as additional telemetry and reporting become available. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 9, 2026; most recent post August 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 24, 2026Lucid listed by Sovcalion the group's public leak site
Data size
35 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sovcali

Sovcali has been linked to 6 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sovcali dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Automotive / Manufacturing sector.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sovcali means Lucid appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Sovcali'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.