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R&K Drysdales

bd_7664a35ccd4ccf2e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 26, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for R&K Drysdales

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sarcoma 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: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2025-03-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Part of the ESG group East of Scotland Growers are a farmer owned growing cooperative based in Cupar, Fife. Our main crops are Broccoli, Brussels sprouts & Cauliflower, along with a wider range of vegetable crops produced in the fertile Scottish soils over a 180 mile radius. Established in 1987 with the purpose of providing the individual grower the benefits of being part of a larger group, allowing all members to grow together for the future. ESG are recognised by the European Union as a Producer Organisation; a producer organisation being a group of growers that work collectively as an organisation for the benefit of the grower. ESG take great pride in this recognition.Geo: United Kingdom - Leak size: 80 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 26, 2025

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.

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About this groupFirst seen 2024-07-09

sarcoma

According to ransomware.live, Sarcoma is a ransomware group that debuted in October 2024, immediately ranking among the top three most active groups globally and surpassing 116 documented victims by mid-2025, targeting mid-market companies across manufacturing, retail, healthcare, legal, and business services with roughly 50% of victims in the United States.

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