Was fcl.crs hit by ransomware?

fcl.crs was listed by the lockbit3 ransomware operation (Canada), 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 lockbit3 ransomware group?

lockbit3 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 fcl.crs breach?

lockbit3 published data attributed to fcl.crs (~10 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Federated Co-operatives Limited

listed as fcl.crs · Claimed by Lockbit3 · listed 2 years ago

10 TB

Data size

22m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 3, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lockbit3
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 3, 2024
Data size: 10 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) is a cooperative organization that supports and serves other cooperatives operating in Western Canada. The organization focuses on creating a positive experience for its team members and members across the cooperative network.

Industry: Cooperative Federation & Business Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 10 TB of data from a major Western Canadian cooperative federation. Scale and sensitivity of data held by such an organization (serving multiple cooperatives, member data, financial records) constitutes significant business and operational data exposure.

LockBit3 claims to have exfiltrated approximately 10 TB of data from FCL. The group has published the data, indicating confirmed exfiltration rather than encryption-only.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business records
operational data
member/employee information

What the group claims

10 TB Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) does business differently. At its core, FCL is a co-operative that supports other co-operatives that serve people in Western Canada. We aim to create an experience for our team members where employees f...

Sources

Victim sitefcl.crs
Leak posthttp://lbb6ud2vyf23z4hw6fzskr5gru7eftbjfbd6yzra3hzuqqvjy63blqqd.onion//post/z25JPyZdBvwb1keu66ad6522f2dd5

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 3, 2024fcl.crs listed by lockbit3on the group's public leak site

Data size: 10 TB

Other recent disclosures by lockbit3

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, fcl.crs is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit3 means fcl.crs 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on lockbit3'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.