www.stri.se Listed by abyss Ransomware Group

On July 16, 2023, Swedish sports technology company STRI appeared on the leak site of the abyss ransomware group with 189GB of uncompressed internal files listed as exfiltrated.

Reported Details from the Listing

The abyss leak site states that STRI suffered a ransomware attack in which attackers exfiltrated internal files. The posting does not specify the exact number of people whose data was involved, nor does it list particular record types such as customer databases or employee payroll files. It simply states that 189GB of uncompressed data was taken and is now published. The disclosure indicates the company was given a deadline to negotiate before the files were released; that deadline has now passed. Public trackers such as ransomware.live mirror the original posting at the address provided in the source note below.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a company that handles sports registrations, event bookings, or coaching databases is breached, the people affected are often ordinary families. Your name, address, phone number, email, date of birth, or children’s activity details may sit inside the files now circulating among criminals. Even if the listing does not quantify affected records, the volume—189GB—suggests a broad sweep of operational data. Once such material leaves the victim’s control, it can be traded or sold for years, turning a single corporate incident into repeated personal exposure for anyone whose information was stored on STRI’s systems.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risk

Internal files from sports organisations frequently contain linked personal details: parent emails next to child names, home addresses tied to membership IDs, and sometimes payment records. Attackers and subsequent buyers can chain these fragments with other breaches to build full identity profiles. A gaming username found in one leak can be matched to an email from this claimed breach, leading to account takeovers on Roblox, Fortnite, or Steam accounts belonging to your children. The same address and phone number can then be used for SIM-swapping, loan fraud, or targeted phishing. These identity chains grow silently until someone opens an account in your name or harasses your family with information scraped from the dataset.

Abyss Ransomware Group’s Known Track Record

Public reporting attributes the emergence of abyss to late 2022. The group has targeted organisations across Europe and North America, typically gaining initial access through phishing or exploited remote-desktop services before deploying ransomware. Their standard playbook involves exfiltrating data before encryption, then publishing samples on their leak site when victims refuse to pay. Notable prior victims include mid-sized manufacturing and service firms; the group’s extortion style relies on public embarrassment and the threat of full data release rather than prolonged negotiation. While exact tactics can evolve, the pattern of stealing internal files and listing them with volume counts such as the 189GB seen here is consistent with their observed operations.

What to do

• Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your emails, phone numbers, usernames, and real-world identity so you can see exactly what chains back to the STRI breach.
• Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next exposure is flagged within hours rather than months.
• Rotate any password you used on stri.se or related sports-club portals and replace it with a unique passphrase; enable 2FA through an authenticator app on every account where the same credentials were reused.
• Cover your household with DoxxScan family protection that extends to dependents and children’s gaming accounts, which often become the next link in doxxing chains after credential leaks like this one.
• Let remediation specialists handle data-broker takedown requests and opt-out processes so you do not have to chase every site selling your information manually.

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