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EARTHWORKS Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 9, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for EARTHWORKS Group

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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-10-09

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The EARTHWORKS Group, Inc. is a turn-key planning and design firm established in 1996 with the mission of providing individualized, technically competent, responsive, yet cost effective engineering and environmental management services to clients throughout the southeastern United States. We provide Engineering, Architectural, Environmental, Land Planning, Geographic Information Systems, Structural, Construction Management, Wetland Mitigation Banking, Project Marketing and other consulting services for public and private sector clients. We work closely with our clients during the design process to address technical issues pertaining to infrastructure, building, and other regulatory requirements. EARTHWORKS’ personnel has an excellent track record of working with the multitude of local, state and federal agencies to obtain necessary development approvals to start your project.Geo: USA - Leak size: 15,5 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 9, 2024

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.

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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 →