Smead
bd_6c1a59bbe7a93940 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
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.
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.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/id/U21lYWRAYmxhY2tieXRl
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 6, 2023
- Raw hash
- e45f12d6552f952c9fae607b1dc92d2a818cd6721a833460083ba9706eb5e789
Reporting entity
- Name
- blackbyte
Victim entity
- Name
- Smeadnorm: smead
- Domain
- smead.com
- Industry
- Manufacturingllm
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· blackbyte
- Threat actor
- BlackbyteExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.