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K2 Sports, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jan 14, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for K2 Sports, LLC →

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: 2023-01-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

About K2 Sports: Our mission is to create the most innovative tools for our consumers to provide the best experiences, push the sports, and strengthen the culture. K2 was born in 1962 as America’s ski company on Vashon Island in Washington State’s Puget Sound. Renamed in 2003 as K2 Sports and now based in Seattle, the company today is an international portfolio of world-renowned brands recognized as leaders in the innovation, marketing, and quality of our products and services. Driven by a passion for our sports and enthusiasts, we make alpine skis, snowboards, snowshoes, in-line skates, and Nordic ski equipment, apparel, and accessories.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jan 14, 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 ↗

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 2021-10-04

blackbyte

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

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