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L'Hôtellerie Restauration

listed as lhotellerie-restauration.fr · Claimed by Lv · listed 4 years ago

54m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 29, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lv
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Sector
Hospitality
Listed on leak site
Jan 29, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

L'Hôtellerie Restauration is a French trade publication and online platform dedicated to the hotel and restaurant industry. It publishes a professional journal, industry news, and practical information for hospitality professionals. The site also operates a major job board with thousands of listings for culinary and hospitality roles across France and internationally.

Industry
Hospitality & Food Service Trade Media / Job Board

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating some level of exfiltration claim, but no leak post content is available to confirm scope, sensitivity, or volume of data. The site likely holds subscriber/user PII and employer/recruiter data, which could be sensitive, but this remains unverified.

The LV ransomware group claims to have attacked lhotellerie-restauration.fr with data published status; however, no leak post content was captured, so specific claims about encryption or exfiltration methods and the precise data at stake cannot be confirmed from available evidence.

medium

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Lv

Lv is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with relatively low visibility compared to major ransomware families but maintaining consistent activity across multiple regions and sectors. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest they operate independently rather than as part of a larger ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem. Limited public documentation exists regarding Lv's specific attack methodology, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their successful compromise of 115 documented victims across diverse sectors indicates they employ conventional ransomware deployment techniques. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and business services, with notable geographic focus on Russia, France, Malaysia, the United States, and the Netherlands, spanning sectors including energy, telecommunications, business services, media, and non-profit organizations. Current intelligence suggests Lv remains active as of recent reporting, though the group maintains a lower profile than prominent ransomware families and has not been subject to major law enforcement disruption operations. The group has been linked to 115 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 22, 2021; most recent post March 13, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 29, 2022lhotellerie-restauration.fr listed by Lvon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lv

Lv has been linked to 115 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Lv dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality sector, which has 103 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, lhotellerie-restauration.fr is reported in France, a country with 612 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lv means lhotellerie-restauration.fr 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-FR (France), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Lv'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.