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Sterling Solutions

bd_3eaf4d612a3198e2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 12, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Sterling Solutions

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackbyte 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2023-05-12

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We are Sterling, a full service creative and production agency, who think about things a little differently.We have 25 years of experience creating complete and compelling communications, brand and marketing solutions from under one roof. By offering each touch-point of excellence in-house, as part of a truly integrated creative and production service, we can offer not only quality and value, but also speed, innovation and cost savings that most other providers can’t.So, whatever you need, even if you’re not sure what that is, we’re here to help.We help bring our clients’ brands, visions and aspirations to life.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 12, 2023

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • 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.

About this groupFirst seen 2021-10-04

blackbyte

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