Disclosure context

About Lorenz

Lorenz is a ransomware group that emerged in January 2020 and operates primarily for financial gain, having claimed approximately 78 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a focus on English-speaking nations including the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Lorenz primarily targets healthcare, finance, automotive, construction, and retail sectors, suggesting they may opportunistically attack organizations with valuable data and limited security resources rather than following a specific geopolitical agenda. While detailed technical analysis of their attack methodology has not been extensively published by major security firms like Mandiant or government agencies such as CISA, the group appears to follow typical ransomware deployment patterns common to financially-motivated cybercriminal organizations. Public documentation of specific high-profile campaigns, notable victims, or significant law enforcement actions against Lorenz remains limited in open-source intelligence reporting. Based on available victim data extending beyond 2020, the group appears to have maintained some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status have not been widely published by authoritative sources in the threat intelligence community. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 12, 2020; most recent post December 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 25, 2023Broad River Retail/Ashley Store listed by Lorenzon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail sector, which has 9 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Broad River Retail/Ashley Store is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Broad River Retail

listed as Broad River Retail/Ashley Store · Claimed by Lorenz · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 25, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lorenz
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Retail
Listed on leak site: Oct 25, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Broad River Retail is a United States-based retailer that operates Ashley furniture stores, functioning as one of the largest Ashley HomeStore licensees in the country. The company sells home furnishings and related products through multiple retail locations, primarily in the southeastern United States. It operates under the Ashley Store brand as a licensed franchisee of Ashley Furniture Industries.

Industry: Furniture & Home Furnishings Retail

Attack summary

Severity: high — The status is 'data_published', confirming that data was exfiltrated and released publicly by the Lorenz group. As a multi-location retail operator, the likely exposure of employee and customer PII, financial records, and business data elevates severity to high, even absent specific data inventory details.

The Lorenz ransomware group claims to have compromised Broad River Retail and has published data as indicated by the 'data_published' disclosure status, though the specific nature of exfiltrated or encrypted data is not detailed in the captured leak post.

high

Sources

Victim siteBroad River Retail/Ashley Store

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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