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Branch

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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cactus 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: ConstructionDiscovered: 2025-02-24

View aggregator listing on ransomware.live

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Commercial & Residential Construction. “Founded in 1963, The Branch Group is a company that owns and operates different companies that specialize in civil construction, residential and commercial building construction, electrical and pipe installation, and more. The company is based in Roanoke, Virginia.” Website: <a href="https://www.branchgroup.com/">https://www.branchgroup.com/<\/a> Revenue : $333M Address: 442 Rutherford Ave NE, Roanoke, Virginia, 24016, United States Phone Number: (540) 982-1678 Download link #1:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/BRANCHGROUP/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/BRANCHGROUP/PROOF/<\/a> Mirror:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/BRANCHGROUP/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/BRANCHGROUP/PROOF/<\/a> DATA DESCRIPTIONS:<\/strong><\/mark> Personal identifiable information, Corporate confidential data, customer information, financial\payroll documents, Employees\executives personal data, IT department documents, corporate correspondence, etc.<\/p><img src="/uploads/Chris_Tucker_ID_22fbc5dcab.png" alt="Chris Tucker ID.png"><img src="/uploads/Branch_Sovos_NDA_07014a5eac.png" alt="Branch Sovos NDA.png"><img src="/uploads/Lori_Beth_Hoel_ID_5284d4273e.png" alt="Lori Beth Hoel ID.png"><img src="/uploads/Breeden_Heating_Air_LF_TPQ_2022_09_NDA_48b06d9916.png" alt="Breeden Heating Air - LF TPQ 2022.09 NDA.png"><img src="/uploads/Branch_interim_financial_statements_May_2023_c9b4b7e60d.png" alt="Branch interim financial statements May 2023.png"><\/p>

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://cactusbloguuodvqjmnzlwetjlpj6aggc6iocwhuupb47laukux7ckid.onion/posts/BRANCHGROUP
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 24, 2025
Raw hash: 49970537fdd5ad83f2a4aa7f741d09306f5618c392b02626da27f06cf484d019

Reporting entity

Name: cactus

Victim entity

Name: Branch
norm: branch
Domain: branchgroup.com
Industry: Constructionllm

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· cactus
Threat actor: CactusExternalFinancial

Compliance

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.