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Hayward

bd_f333fdc7c88c8a9a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 5, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Hayward

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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2023-01-05

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Come on in... The water is Hayward.At Hayward®, we're more than just equipment. Our objective is to make your pool experience worry and hassle-free. That's why our equipment is engineered to last and work smart at keeping your pool sparkling clean and trouble free.For over 80-years, we've been helping pool owners enjoy the pleasures of pool ownership by manufacturing cutting edge, technologically advanced pool equipment worldwide. We strive to ensure that your Totally HaywardTM System operates at maximum efficiency all season long. Our goal is that at the end of the day, your only concern is to turn your equipment on and off. Whether you are trying to create the perfect backyard environment, reduce operating and maintenance costs through the ease of wireless controls, Hayward is your single source solution. Our products include a complete line of technologically advanced pumps, filters, heaters, heat pumps, automatic pool cleaners, lighting, controls and salt chlorine generators—high-quality components engineered to work together to keep your pool at its best.Hayward aims to take the worry out of pool ownership by developing products that are efficient, require little maintenance and add value to your investment.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jan 5, 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

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

About this groupFirst seen 2021-10-04

blackbyte

According to ransomware.live, Ransomware. Uses dropper written in JavaScript to deploy a .NET payload.

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