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Smead

bd_6c1a59bbe7a93940 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 6, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Smead →

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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2023-09-06
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Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Smead Manufacturing keeps its customers' offices organized. Accordingly, the company makes more than 5,000 paper filing products that are sold in office supply stores nationwide. Smead's product assortment includes folders (hanging, tabbed, and expandable), labels, fasteners, and binder and report covers. The firm also supplies open and secure shelving systems.The company was founded in 1906 by Charles Smead. After the founder's death, Smead Manufacturing was purchased by employee P. A. Hoffman, whose granddaughter, Sharon Hoffman Avent, is president and CEO today.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 6, 2023

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

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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