Actor claims to sell LOOF cat registry database with personal data
A threat actor on an underground forum claims to sell a LOOF database, the official French pedigree cat registry: about 654K lines covering 330K animals and 40K people, plus 90,555 files (48 GB compressed). The claimed set includes names, postal addresses, phone numbers, emails, dates of birth, some bank details, pedigrees, DNA tests and certificates. The claim is unverified and LOOF has not confirmed an incident; registered users should watch for fake invoice and renewal emails.
What happened
A threat actor on an underground forum claims to sell a database and about 90,000 documents from LOOF, the official French pedigree cat registry. The claim cites data on 40K people, including names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, dates of birth and some bank details. The breach is unconfirmed and LOOF has not confirmed an incident.
Why it matters
Breeders and pedigree-cat owners routinely pay registration and certificate fees to LOOF. Contact details combined with bank data would make fake invoice, renewal and payment emails very convincing. According to the DailyDarkWeb analyst, most of the claimed volume is animal and pedigree data.
What to do
Watch for an official LOOF statement and monitor the claim. Alert staff and registered customers: verify senders and do not pay suspicious LOOF-linked invoices, renewals or fees.
For the technical team
- Affected
- LOOF (Livre Officiel des Origines Félines) Banco de dados e cerca de 90 mil documentos do LOOF, registro oficial francês de gatos de raça, segundo alegação em fóru · LOOF (Livre Officiel des Origines Félines), the official French pedigree cat registry. No software product or version cited.
- Exploitation
- No technical exploitation reported. Alleged sale on an underground forum, disclosed by DailyDarkWeb; the claim has not been independently verified and LOOF has not confirmed an incident.
- Fix
- No fix cited in the sources. Practical mitigation: awareness of fake invoice, renewal and payment fraud.
- Vector
- Not described in the sources. There is only a claim of data for sale; no detail on how the intrusion would have happened.
- More details
- Set claimed by the actor: about 654K lines covering 330K animals and 40K people; 90,555 files, 48 GB compressed (JSONL, PDF and images); names, postal addresses, phone numbers, emails, dates of birth, some bank details, pedigrees, DNA tests, birth declarations, attestations and certificates. DailyDarkWeb analyst note: most of the claimed volume appears to be animal and pedigree data, rather than 654K individuals.
Timeline
Incident opened.
Sources 1 source
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