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Black Hills Bentonite
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Full breach record for Black Hills Bentonite →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Nitrogen on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Group activity: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2025-11-06
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
An American company founded in 1947. It mines and processes sodium bentonite, a natural clay used in well drilling, metal casting, and pond and landfill sealing.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet. If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice, or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens will merge it into an incident and link it here.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 6, 2025
- Raw hash
- e9313cdfcc8865ab7b32f3b95516a05852cb973f193c3b9470c14ee2984863a3
Reporting entity
- Name
- nitrogen
Victim entity
- Name
- Black Hills Bentonitenorm: black hills bentonite
- Domain
- bhbentonite.com
- Industry
- Manufacturingllm
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· nitrogen
- Threat actor
- NitrogenExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.