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Backyard Discovery

bd_72ec59d4dfee8a16 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Nov 29, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Backyard Discovery2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Embargo 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: 2024-11-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Backyard Discovery is built for families. From a child’s first playset to structures that guard the parents’ newest outdoor interests, our products are meant to play a role in families’ lives for years and years. You can find our dedicated team hard at work in our Pittsburg, KS headquarters and diligently focused at every one of our distribution centers. Each of our innovators and specialists is passionate about helping families enjoy wonderful moments right in their own backyards — and you can see that focus in our high-quality gazebos, pergolas, swing sets, playhouses, and backyard leisure products. - ~1TB of confidential data.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 29, 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 2024-04-17

embargo

According to ransomware.live, Embargo is a Rust-based ransomware-as-a-service group that emerged in April 2024, primarily targeting US healthcare, manufacturing, and business services organizations using double extortion, assessed as a potential successor to BlackCat/ALPHV with over $34 million in ransom proceeds.

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