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Volvo Car Corporation

Claimed by Snatch · listed 5 years ago

56m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 30, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Snatch
Status
Data leaked
Country
Sweden
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Nov 30, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Volvo Car Corporation is a Swedish premium automobile manufacturer headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, founded in 1927. The company is globally recognised for its leadership in vehicle safety technology and innovation. Volvo Cars sells vehicles in more than 100 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people worldwide.

Industry
Automotive Manufacturing
Address
Assar Gabrielssons Väg 9, 405 31 Gothenburg, Sweden
Employees
40000
Founded
1927

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) by the threat actor against a major global automotive manufacturer, indicating confirmed exfiltration of significant business data from a high-profile target, though the specific data types and scale are not fully detailed in the post.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked Volvo Car Corporation and has published data, suggesting exfiltration of company data; the exact nature and volume of data exfiltrated is not specified in the truncated post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate business data
  • Potentially proprietary automotive/engineering data

What the group claims

The first Volvo car rolled off the Gothenburg production line in Sweden in 1927. Since then, Volvo Car Group has been a world-leader in safety technology and innovation. Today, Volvo is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world with sales

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 30, 2021Volvo Car Corporation listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 3,684 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Volvo Car Corporation is reported in Sweden, a country with 111 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Volvo Car Corporation 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, CERT-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Snatch'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.