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The ToolShed

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Apr 4, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The ToolShed

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sarcoma 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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2025-04-04

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The ToolShed We specialise in bringing high quality product directly to you at bargain, tradesman prices. We stock a wide range of hand tools, power tools, air tools, automotive tools, outdoor tools, machinery, compressors, welders, accessories, consumables and much, much more. The ToolShed is well renowned for providing imported high quality tools, along with also being major stockists of Makita, Hitachi, DeWalt, Milwaukee, Powerbuilt, Stanley and many more well-known brands. Originally formed over 30 years ago and run by tradies, the ToolShed is New Zealand owned by real down to earth kiwi jokers who love tools! You can count on us to bring you speciality service and knowledge, so that you can get the right tool for your job. If we don't have it, we'll be happy to source it for you. What ever you do, day to day or at home, The ToolShed will be here to help you through your project, job, or industry - bringing you quality without the cost.Geo: New Zealand - Leak size: Files - Contains: 160 GB Archive

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Apr 4, 2025

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

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-07-09

sarcoma

According to ransomware.live, Sarcoma is a ransomware group that debuted in October 2024, immediately ranking among the top three most active groups globally and surpassing 116 documented victims by mid-2025, targeting mid-market companies across manufacturing, retail, healthcare, legal, and business services with roughly 50% of victims in the United States.

141 victims claimed globally141 tracked hereFull profile →