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Instinct Pet Food

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Oct 16, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

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

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 16, 2024

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteOct 16 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 16, last Nov 25 (ME) — a 40-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.