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JD Lighting

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 1 year ago

76 GB
Data size
18m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Sarcoma
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Retail
Listed on leak site
Jan 16, 2025
Data size
76 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

JD Lighting is a full-service wholesale lighting distributor based in the United States, specializing in a comprehensive range of lighting products including fluorescent, incandescent, HID, halogen, CFL, and LED bulbs, along with ballasts and drivers. The company has been operating since 1986 and serves customers through e-commerce and phone-based ordering.

Industry
Lighting Distribution & Wholesale
Founded
1986

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 76 GB of data with public disclosure. While the specific data types are not detailed in the post, the volume and publication indicate significant business data compromise. No encryption-only claims; data has been actively published.

Sarcoma claims to have exfiltrated 76 GB of data from JD Lighting. The group has published the data archive without specifying the exact content or nature of information compromised.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer records
  • Business files
  • Operational data

What the group claims

JD Lighting We are a full service wholesale lighting distributor specializing in Fluorescent, Incandescent, HID, Halogen, CFL and LED light bulbs. We also carry a large range of ballasts and drivers. We have proudly been supplying the highest quality products since 1986Geo: USA - Leak size: 76 GB Archive - Contains: Files

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 16, 2025JD Lighting listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site
Data size
76 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, JD Lighting is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means JD Lighting 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 Sarcoma'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.