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The Beauty Click

bd_5c8ae35509254a8a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 21, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Beauty Click

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Apt73 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: 2024-10-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Beauty Click was founded in April 2018 by Chantelle Bass. A website that has a platform for both the beauty and hair specialists themselves a...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 21, 2024

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 2023-11-01

apt73

According to ransomware.live, A new ransomware group is said to have emerged in mid-April 2024, under the name 'APT73.' It's worth noting that the group reportedly self-proclaimed as an APT, which stands for 'Advanced Persistent Threat' in the cybersecurity field. According to research, much of the available information about the aforementioned group came from another ransomware group known as LockBit. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs

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