Tackle West
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Full breach record for Tackle West →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group ALPHV / BlackCat 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
TackleWest is an independent fishing tackle business with two stores situated in Perth. At TackleWest, our goal is not to just sell you the correct fishing tackle, we aim to educate our customers on how to catch fish. We will show you the right equipment to purchase, how to use it and point you in the direction of catching some fish! Specialising in all forms of fishing, our staff are avid fisherman that have over 25 years of combined knowledge within the fishing tackle industry and real "on water" fishing experience. We absolutely live and breath fishing. Catering for the novice angler to the expert sport fisherman, we have what you need to get you on the water wetting a line! We have a real passion for lure fishing, when you come into our store you will see how vast our product range is. You will see all of your favourite products on our shelves but you will also see a large range of gear that is not seen at our competition. We only sell branded products, you will not see inferior home brand product in our stores for sale. Most of the products on our shelves we have personally used and are relevant to current fishing techniques. Pop in and explore our range, you will be impressed!
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Nov 19, 2023
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.
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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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alphv
According to ransomware.live, The operators of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware began their activity in December 2021, making posts on Dark Web forums to promote their affiliate program, offering other actors the opportunity to engage in a 'new type of ransomware family' developed from scratch using the Rust programming language. Some clear evidence indicates that the actors behind this new ransomware are not new to cybercrime, and there were links to other affiliate programs such as DarkSide, BlackMatter, and REvil. (After several attacks against large companies, these groups faced pressure and arrests, necessitating the termination of their operations). As a security measure, the operators of ALPHV implemented the requirement for the execution of the ransomware payload by providing an 'access token,' which is supplied by the owners of the Ransomware-as-a-Service to the affiliate. This token is added to the victim's ransom note so that they can contact the threat actor responsible for encrypting the data. ALPHV affiliates employ double and triple extortion techniques, meaning the publication of the company's name on leak sites, threats of data leakage, and lastly, threats of DDoS attacks against the organization. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs