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Synquestlabs

bd_983feacf6ecfef41 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 17, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Synquestlabs

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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2023-08-17

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

SynQuest specializes in fluorinated organic and inorganic chemicals, providing a creative and innovative range of building blocks, reagents and compressed and liquefied gases. We offer chemical services designed to expedite your research from conception to pilot quantities. We have 5200 in chemicals in stock and can custom manufacture to your specifications. SynQuest maintains focus on fluorine chemistry, as well as extending our range of reagents with new materials requested by our customers and from our internal R&D programs for the development of new products. Since the acquisition of SynQuest by Central Glass (Japan) in 2002, our two companies have worked together, closely taking advantage of the different strengths to be found in each organization. Central Glass Group can offer customers a seamless transition from small scale laboratory research and pilot scale at Synquest, through to full commercialization at Central Glass Germany and Japan. SynQuest is a bulk stocking location of Central Glass products, particularly Trifluoromethanesulfonic acid and Trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride.SITE: https://www.synquestlabs.com Address SynQuest Laboratories, Inc. 13201 Rachael Blvd, Rt 2054 Alachua FL 32615 USA

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Aug 17, 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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