BELK HOLDINGS, LLC
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Full breach record for BELK HOLDINGS, LLC →3 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Headquartered in Monroe, North Carolina, Belk is a department store that offers apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings and wedding registry online and in-store. Public Statement: Our intention was never to destroy your business. We provided you with the opportunity to address your negligence and keep your customer data intact, but you chose to refuse payment at the agreement stage. As a result, people have suffered. We hope this serves as a lesson for others.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
May 9, 2025
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
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Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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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dragonforce
According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.