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Wärtsilä

listed as WARTSILA.COM - HACKED AND MORE THEN 2000 GB DATA LEAKED · Claimed by Lv · listed 4 years ago

48m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 25, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lv
Status
Data leaked
Country
Finland
Sector
Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site
Jul 25, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wärtsilä is a Finnish global leader in innovative technologies and lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets, operating in approximately 180 countries. The company provides flexible engine power plants, energy storage systems, propulsion technologies, and intelligent optimisation solutions to energy providers and maritime operators worldwide. One in three large vessels globally uses Wärtsilä technologies, and the company employs around 17,000 people.

Industry
Marine & Energy Technology (Power Systems, Propulsion & Lifecycle Solutions)
Address
John Stenbergin ranta 2, FI-00170 Helsinki, Finland
Employees
17000
Founded
1834

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Over 2,000 GB of data reportedly exfiltrated and published from a major global industrial technology company operating in critical marine and energy infrastructure across 180 countries; scale of exfiltration and sensitivity of operational, customer, and potentially regulated data warrants critical classification.

The Lv ransomware group claims to have hacked Wärtsilä and exfiltrated more than 2,000 GB of data, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating the stolen data has been released or made available.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate business data
  • Engineering and technical files
  • Employee records
  • Customer and partner information
  • Financial documents
  • Operational and project data

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 25, 2022WARTSILA.COM - HACKED AND MORE THEN 2000 GB 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:

See the full Lv dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy & Utilities sector, which has 163 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, WARTSILA.COM - HACKED AND MORE THEN 2000 GB DATA LEAKED is reported in Finland, a country with 9 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lv means WARTSILA.COM - HACKED AND MORE THEN 2000 GB 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, NCSC-FI (Finland), 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.