Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsVesuvius
Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Mar 1, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Vicesociety
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sector
- Manufacturing
- Listed on leak site
- Mar 1, 2023
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileVesuvius plc is a global leader in molten metal flow engineering, providing specialist products, technologies, and services primarily to the steel and foundry industries worldwide. The company operates 17 research centres globally and invests approximately £33.2 million annually in research and development. Vesuvius is headquartered in London, UK, and serves customers across more than 40 countries.
- Industry
- Advanced Ceramics & Molten Metal Flow Engineering
- Address
- 165 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2AE, United Kingdom
- Employees
- 10000+
- Founded
- 1916
Attack summary
Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by a known ransomware group against a major publicly-listed global industrial manufacturer with significant intellectual property in advanced materials R&D; exfiltration of proprietary engineering and business data from a FTSE-listed company constitutes a high-severity incident, though no explicit PII-at-scale or regulated personal data exposure is confirmed from the available post.Vice Society claims to have compromised Vesuvius and has published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration of company data; the leak post does not specify whether encryption was also deployed, but the disclosed status indicates data has been published.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Engineering and R&D documentation
- Business operational data
- Corporate internal files
What the group claims
Vesuvius provides engineering services and solutions principally to steel and foundry industries worldwide. With 17 research centres across the globe and an annual investment of 33.2 million in research and development, Vesuvius continues to lead innovation in our industry.
Sources
- Victim sitevesuvius.com
Source
Indexed 3 years agoThis page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.
