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GLOBALMalwareAgriculture & FoodAgricultureRansomwareBlack BastaRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Peco Foods Inc.

bd_9389970dbade6326 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 19, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Peco Foods Inc.2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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: 2023-12-19

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Peco Foods hopes you’ll pick up their poultry. Producing some 24 million pounds of poultry each week, the company processes private-label and store-brand chicken for US retail and foodservice customers. Peco Foods also exports items to Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. The processing company’s frozen, deli, and tray-pack products include boneless, skinless chicken breasts and tenderloins; boneless thighs; and jumbo legs and wings; as well as value-added breaded and flavored products. As a fully integrated processor, Peco Foods operates feed mills and hatcheries in three US states to support its poultry production facilities. Peco Foods is owned and operated by the founding Hickman family.SITE: www.pecofoods.com Address : 1101 Greensboro Ave Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United StatesALL DATA SIZE: 510gb 1. Users personal documents 2. Human Resources 3. Accounting 4. Scans and etc...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Dec 19, 2023

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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