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Swiss American

bd_9582207681ea9a1d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 1, 2022

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Swiss American

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackbyte 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: 2022-10-01

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Cheese engages all the senses. We believe that an amazing specialty food deserves an equally compelling label. Swiss American educates the public on the unique conditions that make the world’s best cheeses, starting with in-store packaging, informative displays, and engaging promotions. From private label to control brands, our artists bring their passion for cheese to everything we create; inviting hungry people everywhere to join us in the world of specialty cheeses.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 1, 2022

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 2021-10-04

blackbyte

According to ransomware.live, Ransomware. Uses dropper written in JavaScript to deploy a .NET payload.

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