AmChar Wholesale, Inc.
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cactus 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
<p>FIrearms Retail.<br><br>“AmChar Wholesale, Inc. has been in the firearms business since 1980. During the last 40 years, we have become one of the top distributors in the industry for law enforcement entities and independent dealers in the United States. AmChar is backed by industry professionals who have been in the firearms business for over a half century.”<br><br>Website: <a href="https://www.amchar.com/">https://www.amchar.com/<\/a><br><br>Revenue : $28.7M<br><br>Address: 100 Airpark Dr Fl 1, Rochester, New York, 14624, United States<br><br>Phone Number: ([REDACTED-PHONE]<br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Download link #1:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/AMCHAR2/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/AMCHAR2/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>Mirror:<\/strong><\/mark> <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/AMCHAR2/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/AMCHAR2/PROOF/<\/a><br><br><mark class="marker-yellow"><strong>DATA DESCRIPTIONS:<\/strong><\/mark> Personal Identifiable Information, financial documents, database backups, employees personal documents, corporate data\contracts, customer information, corporate correspondence, etc.<\/p><p><img src="/uploads/PETRITSCH_DEBRA_DL_SSN_CARDS_000177_d009972c65.png" alt="PETRITSCH DEBRA DL SSN CARDS_000177.png"><img src="/uploads/STEBOR_RICHARD_IDENTIFICATION_4dc216886f.png" alt="STEBOR RICHARD IDENTIFICATION.png"><img src="/uploads/Beazley_Cyber_Insurance_Application_Above_250_M_AHI_2023_2024_Signed_10_2_2023_748f87e5f8.png" alt="Beazley Cyber Insurance Application (Above 250M) - AHI 2023-2024 Signed 10.2.2023.png"><img src="/uploads/ET_Arms_July_2024_First_Savings_CC_Statement_Tony_Di_Chario_9ba3146f36.p
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Sep 17, 2024
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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cactus
According to ransomware.live, The CACTUS ransomware is said to have emerged around March 2023. The group became known for exploiting vulnerabilities to gain initial access and maintain a presence within the organization's infrastructure. There is little known information about the ransomware group, except that it emerged on the mentioned date and, following encryption, a text file named 'cAcTuS.readme.txt' would be created. Additionally, encrypted files were altered to the '.cts1' extension, and data exfiltration and victim extortion were conducted through the use of the service known as Tox. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs