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Kretek International

bd_d05662c5e17462cb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 5, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Kretek International →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: 2023-04-07
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Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Kretek International, Inc is a number one importer, marketer, and distributor of specialty tobacco products to convenience, mass, and national retailers in the US. We are going to distribute the data of 70GB size we got from them. We have accounting, finance data, payment information, contracts, personal information (employees' info, addresses etc.), information about their projects and so on.Release coming soon.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 5, 2023

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 3 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGJun 7 · first
Massachusetts State AGJun 7 · first

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.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

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

About this groupFirst seen 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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