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Studio Teruzzi

listed as studioteruzzi.com - HACKED AND MORE THEN 80GB DATA LEAKED · Claimed by Lv · listed 4 years ago

48m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 27, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lv
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Legal
Listed on leak site
Jul 27, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Studio Teruzzi is an Italian professional services firm founded in 1988 that provides accounting, tax and fiscal consulting, corporate advisory, payroll and HR administration services to self-employed professionals and companies, including those belonging to international groups. The firm offers both Italian statutory compliance and international reporting standards support. It has operated continuously for over 35 years serving a predominantly business clientele.

Industry
Accounting, Tax & Business Consulting
Founded
1988

Attack summary

Severity: high — Over 80 GB of data has been published, likely containing sensitive client financial records, payroll/HR data (including personal employee information), and confidential corporate advisory materials for multiple businesses including international groups, representing significant exfiltration of business and potentially regulated personal data.

The LV ransomware group claims to have hacked Studio Teruzzi and leaked more than 80 GB of data from the firm, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating the exfiltrated data has been released publicly.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client financial and accounting records
  • Tax and fiscal compliance documents
  • Corporate advisory files
  • Payroll and HR administration data
  • Employee personal data
  • Business client records (including international groups)

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Lv

Lv is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with relatively low visibility compared to major ransomware families but maintaining consistent activity across multiple regions and sectors. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding Lv's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 115 documented victims across diverse sectors indicates they employ conventional ransomware deployment techniques. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and business services, with notable geographic focus on Russia, France, Malaysia, the United States, and the Netherlands, spanning sectors including energy, telecommunications, business services, media, and non-profit organizations. Current intelligence suggests Lv remains active as of recent reporting, though the group maintains a lower profile than prominent ransomware families and has not been subject to major law enforcement disruption operations. The group has been linked to 115 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 22, 2021; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 27, 2022studioteruzzi.com - HACKED AND MORE THEN 80GB DATA LEAKED listed by Lvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lv

Lv has been linked to 115 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 Legal sector, which has 241 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, studioteruzzi.com - HACKED AND MORE THEN 80GB DATA LEAKED is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lv means studioteruzzi.com - HACKED AND MORE THEN 80GB DATA LEAKED 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Lv'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.