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Meridian Forest Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 16, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Meridian Forest Services

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Beast 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: 2026-08-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Meridian Forest Services Limited is a progressive natural resource consulting company that offers a range of services including forest engineering, silviculture, tenure management, strategic planning, geomatics, wildlife and danger tree assessment, and project management. The company caters to a diverse clientele, including First Nations, industry stakeholders, private forest landowners, and government entities. Committed to safety, Meridian is Safe Certified through the BC Forest Safety Council, ensuring a secure work environment. Their innovative approach positions them as a leader in the natural resource sector https://www.zoominfo.com/c/meridian-forest-services-ltd/347853013 https://www.meridianforest.ca

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 16, 2026

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 2023-12-19

beast

According to ransomware.live, Beast is a Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) product which provides functionality such as SMB scanning, file encryption, service and process starting and stopping, and geographic identification to avoid encryption in CIS countries.

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