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Instinct Pet Food

bd_f839178b4422a653 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 16, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Instinct Pet Food →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2024-11-19
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Instinct Pet Food is a family-owned pet food company that makes natural, minimally processed food for dogs and cats. Their products include: frozen raw meals, freeze-dried raw meals, kibble, raw toppers, and wet food. Instinct Pet Food’s mission is to improve the lives of pets by providing them with real, natural food. They believe that raw nutrition is unmatched and that food has the power to change a pet’s life.SITE: www.naturesvariety.com | www.instinctpetfood.com Address : 55 West Port Plaza Drive, Suite 200 St. Louis, MO 63146 United StatesTEL#: (314) 590-5700ALL DATA SIZE: ≈1.5tb 1. Human Resources 2. Corporate data(Financial, Payroll, Tax, Accounting... 3. Users Personal folders and documents 4. R&D & etc...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 16, 2024

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 2 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

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.

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