HackingManufacturingManufacturingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Barktek Ingredients

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 31, 2025

Filed

Nov 25, 2025

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Barktek Ingredients →

Barktek Ingredients notified Vermont AG that a cyber incident detected on August 31, 2025, may have compromised employee personal information, including names, SSNs, and tax/earning data. The company engaged forensic experts and is offering one year of credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday12 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 86 days

Aug 31, 2025

Discovered

Nov 25, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Barktek Ingredients
norm: barktek ingredients

Name: Barktek Ingredients
norm: barktek ingredients
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Aug 31, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 25, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took immediate steps to secure the environment
Hired cybersecurity experts to help us investigate
Offering you credit monitoring services for a period of 1 year(s) with TransUnion/Equifax
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures that will help us prevent similar incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(86 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-11-25-barktek-ingredients-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 25, 2025
Raw hash: a81fe2cd717bb20799f54810c33afc8ce76c02d3adf9e4343854f5686259d0d4

Reporting entityBarktek Ingredients

Victim entityBarktek Ingredients

Incidentdiscovered Aug 31, 2025

Stated responseTook immediate steps to secure the environment

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov