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Linney

bd_7bf38cb02f0e21d5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 20, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Linney

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Dunghill 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: 2025-04-27

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Linney is a sixth generation, world-class, multichannel marketing services group. It offers graphic design, brand strategy, copywriting, social media campaigns, website design and build, data analysis, content scheduling, prototyping, eCommerce integrations, film editing and video production, reporting and analytics, and other solutions. For more than a decade, Linney has produced and managed marketing campaigns within McDonald's restaurants. The company is currently preparing a marketing campaign for Starbucks in the spring of 2025.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 20, 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.

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 2023-04-10

dunghill

According to ransomware.live, Dunghill Leak is the data extortion site operated by the Dark Angels ransomware group, active since early 2023, targeting large enterprises across healthcare, finance, industrial, and technology sectors using a highly selective non-affiliate model, and responsible for a record-breaking $75 million ransom payment in 2024.

16 victims claimed globally16 tracked hereFull profile →