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FOCUS Business Solutions

bd_f0f26a0540bc70f2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 7, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for FOCUS Business Solutions

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackbyte 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: 2023-09-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

FOCUS was founded in 1998 with the simple vision of delivering great cost savings and compliance services to importers and exporters at a fair price. Clients engage us to manage their compliance and duty savings programs within their limited budgets. Being highly responsive and flexible to meet the unique business and compliance needs of each of our clients is why clients have stayed with us for 25 years. We deliver the highest quality customs management and compliance services to our clients.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 7, 2023

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

  • 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 2021-10-04

blackbyte

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