Was T-Space hit by ransomware?

T-Space was listed by the Cicada3301 ransomware operation (United Kingdom), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Cicada3301 ransomware group?

Cicada3301 is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the T-Space breach?

Cicada3301 published data attributed to T-Space. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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T-Space Architects

listed as T-Space · Claimed by Cicada3301 · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 19, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Cicada3301
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Oct 19, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

T-Space Architects is a UK-based architectural practice specializing in planning and design projects in the London area, particularly in Redbridge and Waltham Forest boroughs. The firm appears to have ceased independent operations, with Clear Architects now handling its enquiries. Projects include residential development and sensitive heritage site transformations.

Industry: Architecture & Urban Planning
Address: United Kingdom (London area, near Wanstead)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed threat of data exfiltration and disclosure with no ransom stated; however, no proof files are advertised and no specific regulated data categories are identified. The target is a small architecture firm rather than critical infrastructure or major data custodian.

Cicada3301 claims to have exfiltrated data from T-Space Architects and threatens to publish it if the company does not contact them. The group emphasizes the accumulated expertise and project-related materials at the firm.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

project designs and documentation
client records
architectural plans
project management files

What the group claims

!!! IF THE COMPANY DOES NOT CONTACT US SOON, THE DATA WILL BE PUBLISHED !!!! The expertise at T-Space has taken years to assemble. To carry a project from concept to completion demands a wide range of skills, a wider range than any one person can embody. The creativity that launches a project is a very different skill from the doggedness that will overcome the statutory hurdles or the discipline required to manage the project program. So the best outcomes demand the best team.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Cicada3301

Cicada3301 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in June 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with limited information available regarding their operational structure or potential connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Based on observed targeting patterns, Cicada3301 has demonstrated a preference for attacking business services, technology, manufacturing, and financial sector organizations, with their operations concentrated primarily in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as extending to Spain and Singapore. The group has successfully compromised approximately 75 known victims since their emergence, though specific details regarding their attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in publicly available threat intelligence reports from major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Given the limited public documentation available from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, the group's current operational status, technical capabilities, and specific attack infrastructure remain largely uncharacterized in open-source intelligence reporting. As of the most recent observations, Cicada3301 appears to remain active in conducting ransomware operations, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits more detailed public reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 75 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 20, 2024; most recent post September 4, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 19, 2024T-Space listed by Cicada3301on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Cicada3301

Cicada3301 has been linked to 75 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, T-Space is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cicada3301 means T-Space 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 Cicada3301'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.