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Saddlers Court MFG Ltd

listed as Saddlers Court MFG · Claimed by Play · listed 2 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Play
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Saddlers Court MFG Ltd is a family-owned SME founded in 1997 that supplies steel fabrications and CNC machined components to OEMs and first-tier manufacturers across construction, forestry, agriculture, material handling, mechanical engineering, and aerial platforms sectors. The company specializes in production-line machined steel fabrications ranging from 150 kilos to 1.5 tonnes and offers in-house induction hardening services.

Industry
Steel Fabrications & CNC Machining
Employees
51-200
Founded
1997

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post excerpt contains no proof files, screenshots, data samples, or detailed attack description. Only a listing/announcement with minimal content is evident. No operational impact, encryption confirmation, or data exfiltration details are stated.

The ransomware group 'play' claims to have conducted an attack on Saddlers Court MFG; however, the leak post excerpt provided contains only a geographical reference ('United States') and no substantive details regarding the nature of the attack, data exfiltration, encryption, or specific data compromised.

low

What the group claims

United States

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Play

**Overview:** Play (also known as PlayCrypt) is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in late 2022, conducting targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on financial extortion. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin remains unclear based on public reporting, though they appear to operate independently rather than as a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. **Attack Methodology:** Play ransomware operators typically gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials and exploit valid accounts, then move laterally through networks using tools like Cobalt Strike before deploying their custom ransomware payload. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. **Notable Campaigns:** According to CISA advisories, Play has targeted over 300 entities globally since its emergence, with significant impacts on critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, and government services, though specific ransom amounts and individual victim details vary in public reporting. **Current Status:** Play remains an active threat as of 2024, continuing to target organizations primarily in North America and Europe according to ongoing security researcher observations and law enforcement warnings. The group has been linked to 1,405 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 26, 2022; most recent post October 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: PlayCrypt.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2026Saddlers Court MFG listed by Play on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Play

Play has been linked to 1,405 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,699 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Saddlers Court MFG is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 377 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Play means Saddlers Court MFG 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 Play'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.