Goff Backa Alfera & Company, LLC
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Full breach record for Goff Backa Alfera & Company, LLC →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lynx 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
GOFF BACKA ALFERA & COMPANY, LLC is a full-service public accounting and consulting firm serving clients locally, nationally and internationally. Our firm ranks among the top firms in the nation and has been voted by its employees as one of the top 25 places to work in the region. We take pride in providing the highest quality of services to our clients and our memberships in the AICPA's Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center, Center for Public Company Audit Firms and Governmental Audit Quality Center assist our professional staff in achieving this ultimate goal. Our professionals are active leaders and members of numerous professional, educational and community organizations. Our specialized service groups, combined with our client relationship partner and manager structure, are designed to provide our clients with the highest value and technical expertise available without sacrificing the personalized service that is our trademark. In addition to the personal attention our client
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Feb 17, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
Not assessable
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
Source ceiling
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- victim claim
- ransom/leak status
- discovery date
- materiality
- notification
- affected count
- confirmed data types
- compliance clock
The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
lynx
According to ransomware.live, Lynx is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in mid-2024 as a rebrand of INC Ransomware (whose source code was sold for $300,000 on the RAMP forum), claiming ~300 victims across manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation with an 80/20 profit split for affiliates.