Was Essential Labs hit by ransomware?

Essential Labs was listed by the 8Base ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the 8Base ransomware group?

8Base is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Essential Labs breach?

8Base published data attributed to Essential Labs. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Essential Labs

Claimed by 8Base · listed 2 years ago

28m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 29, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: 8Base
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Feb 29, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Essential Labs is a premium natural and organic personal care company based in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in contract manufacturing and contract packaging services for the cosmetics and personal care industry.

Industry: Personal Care Manufacturing & Packaging
Address: Pacific Northwest, United States

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post contains only a company listing with no proof files, no data inventory disclosed, and no clear statement of operational impact or data exfiltration. Insufficient evidence of actual breach impact.

8Base claims to have compromised Essential Labs; however, the leak post provides no details on whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, and does not specify what data categories are at risk.

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What the group claims

Essential Labs, located in the Pacific Northwest, is a premium natural and organic personal care formulating, contract manufacturing and contract packaging company.ewlnatural.com

Sources

Victim siteewlnatural.com
Leak posthttp://xb6q2aggycmlcrjtbjendcnnwpmmwbosqaugxsqb4nx6cmod3emy7sad.onion/company/7890390

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About 8Base

8Base is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a rapid escalation in activity with 458 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation targeting predominantly Western markets. Based on publicly available victim data, 8Base appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against business services and manufacturing sectors, with the United States representing their primary target geography, followed by France, Brazil, Italy, and the United Kingdom, indicating a preference for developed economies with established digital infrastructure. The group has notably impacted healthcare and technology sectors alongside their primary business services focus, suggesting a broad targeting approach rather than sector-specific specialization. Given the group's recent emergence in 2023 and continued victim accumulation across diverse geographic and sectoral targets, 8Base appears to remain active as of current reporting periods, though detailed technical methodologies, specific attack vectors, and notable high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security agencies. The group has been linked to 458 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 23, 2023; most recent post February 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 29, 2024Essential Labs listed by 8Baseon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by 8Base

8Base has been linked to 458 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Essential Labs is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by 8Base means Essential Labs appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on 8Base's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.