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Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd.

bd_28438e8d7179746a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 12, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blacknevas 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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-08-12

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Jack Rutherford Customs Brokers Ltd. is a Canadian customs brokerage company currently operating under the brand name The Rutherford Group. The company provides comprehensive logistics services, primarily: customs brokerage (import and export clearance, clearance through Canadian and US customs, compliance consulting, CARM, surety bonds, etc.). They have PIP (Partners in Protection) status.Transportation: shipping within Canada, the US, and internationally.Warehousing: bonded warehouses (including CBSA sufferance), pick & pack, storage, including FDA-certified warehouses in Port Huron, Michigan.The company was founded in 1974 by Jack Rutherford in Stratford, Ontario. Now a family-owned business (second generation – John Rutherford), it positions itself as a one-stop shop for cross-border logistics.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Aug 12, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

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About this groupFirst seen 2023-04-24

blacknevas

According to ransomware.live, BlackNevas is a ransomware group first observed in November 2024, believed to be derived from the Trigona ransomware family, targeting telecommunications, manufacturing, medical, and legal industries primarily in Asia-Pacific, the UK, Italy, and Lithuania using double-extortion with a dual AES/RSA encryption scheme.

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