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Gruppo Spaggiari Parma

Claimed by Xpl0Itrs · listed 7 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 20, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Xpl0Itrs
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gruppo Spaggiari Parma operates digital platforms serving Italian schools, including electronic registers and administrative tools. The platform serves over 3,000 schools with approximately 3 million daily visits from students, teachers, and families.

Industry
Educational Technology & Digital Platforms
Address
Parma, Italy

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of highly regulated and sensitive personal data at massive scale: medical records of minors, PII of millions of students and teachers, educational records, and government-issued ID information. The victim is an educational platform serving 3,000+ schools, making this a large-scale breach of children's and educators' data.

The xpl0itrs group claims to have exfiltrated 6.1TB of data from Gruppo Spaggiari Parma's systems, including student medical records, teacher identification and resumes, student certifications, and personal information (addresses, names, phone numbers, emails, dates of birth, places of birth, and driver's licenses) affecting millions of individuals across 3,000+ schools.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • student medical records
  • teacher IDs and resumes
  • student certifications
  • driver's licenses
  • personal identifiable information (names, addresses, phone numbers, emails)
  • dates of birth
  • places of birth

What the group claims

School management software

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[This is your last chance to contact before 6100GBs of data is sold or leaked](http://2kieaq6jnwgrru62wwtxaafg35q6rzweg7y2xjfnbhvq5wd4eojqv6yd.onion/company/spaggiari/)
Countdown until data sale or leak
Gruppo Spaggiari Parma runs digital platforms for Italian schools out of Parma, Italy. Students, teachers, and families use its electronic register and admin tools daily. They carry traffic of around 3 million daily visits. We hold 6.1TB of data, including teacher IDs, student certifications, student medical records, resumes, and more. This data collectively gives anybody with it at-hand, millions of addresses, names, phone numbers, emails, place of birth, date of birth, and literally hundreds of other data fields that are too long to list here. Contact us.
3k+ schools: Student medical data, teacher resumes (dob, address, history), driver's licenses, more

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Gruppo Spaggiari Parma

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About xpl0itrs

xpl0itrs is a nascent ransomware group first observed in August 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting profile, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and low victim count. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin or affiliation with established threat actor ecosystems has been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time, and it remains unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed actor. Based on available victim telemetry, xpl0itrs has targeted organizations across Australia, Austria, and the United States, with a focus on the Technology and Retail and E-Commerce sectors, though the specific initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, and extortion tactics employed by the group have not yet been publicly detailed in open-source intelligence reporting. To date, the group has been linked to four known victims, and no high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly disclosed. As of the time of this writing, xpl0itrs appears to be an active but early-stage threat actor warranting monitoring as it may expand its targeting scope and operational tempo as it matures. The group has been linked to 16 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 15, 2026; most recent post August 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 20, 2026Gruppo Spaggiari Parma listed by xpl0itrson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by xpl0itrs

xpl0itrs has been linked to 16 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full xpl0itrs dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,692 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gruppo Spaggiari Parma is reported in Italy, a country with 203 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by xpl0itrs means Gruppo Spaggiari Parma 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 xpl0itrs'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.