Was Arango Billboard hit by ransomware?

Arango Billboard was listed by the Meow ransomware operation (Colombia), 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 Meow ransomware group?

Meow 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 Arango Billboard breach?

Meow published data attributed to Arango Billboard (~15 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Arango Billboard Construction Co., LLC

listed as Arango Billboard · Claimed by Meow · listed 2 years ago

15 GB

Data size

21m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 21, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Meow
Status: Data leaked
Country: Colombia
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 21, 2024
Data size: 15 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Arango Billboard Construction Co., LLC is a Miami-based company specializing in outdoor advertising and general construction services. Founded in August 2015, the company focuses on the installation and maintenance of billboards, including conversion of traditional billboards to digital and LED formats, as well as managing construction permits for billboard installations across Florida.

Industry: Outdoor Advertising & Construction Services
Address: NW 60th Street, Miami, Florida
Founded: 2015

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated sensitive data at scale including PII (personal details, DOB, driver's licenses), financial records (bank statements, tax returns), and health/medical information. Multiple categories of sensitive data covering employees and likely clients.

The Meow group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 15 GB of confidential data from Arango Billboard Construction Co., LLC. The leaked data includes employee personal information, financial documents, tax records, medical information, and business contracts.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal details and dates of birth
Driver's license scans
Contracts and agreements
Bank statements
Credit applications
Financial reports
Tax returns
Payment receipts
Contact information
Insurance cards
Medical records and treatment forms
Health insurance policies

What the group claims

Dear customers!We are offering exclusive access to over 15 GB of confidential data from Arango Billboard  Construction Co., LLC, a Miami, Floridabased company specializing in outdoor advertising and general construction services. Founded in August 2015, Arango is well known for its expertise in the installation and maintenance of billboards, including digital and LED conversions. The company handles a variety of projects across Florida, converting traditional billboards to digital formats, installing new signs, and managing construction permits for billboard installations, reflecting its active role in Floridas advertising infrastructure.Operating out of its location on NW 60th Street, Arango serves clients in the surrounding areas and is involved in projects ranging from smallscale updates to large billboard installations, which may include structural work and electrical permits.This comprehensive data pack includes:Employee data personal details, dates of birth, drivers license scans Contracts and agreements Financial documents bank statements, credit applications, financial reports Tax documents tax returns, payment receipts Personal data contact information, insurance cards Medical information treatment forms, health insurance policies And much more This data pack offers valuable insights into Arango Billboard  Construction Co.s operations, making it of significant interest to professionals in outdoor advertising, construction, and business analysis.To gain access to this exclusive 15 GB data pack, click the Buy button and provide your contact details for registration. Our team will assist you with a secure and confidential transaction.Dont miss this opportunity to access key information from Arango Billboard  Construction Co., LLC with this exclusive data pack!

Sources

Leak posthttp://meow6xanhzfci2gbkn3lmbqq7xjjufskkdfocqdngt3ltvzgqpsg5mid.onion/product/113

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Meow

Meow is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in November 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group has compromised at least 145 known victims in a short operational timeframe, demonstrating rapid scaling of their criminal enterprise. Based on their targeting patterns, Meow appears to focus heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada representing their primary victim base, though they have also expanded operations to include targets in Italy and Colombia. The group shows a preference for attacking business services organizations, manufacturing companies, healthcare institutions, and agriculture and food production entities, suggesting they may employ broad-spectrum targeting rather than highly specialized sector focus. Their emergence in late 2023 and the significant victim count achieved in a relatively short period indicates either a sophisticated operation with experienced operators or potential links to existing ransomware ecosystems, though specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence sources. Given the recent timeline of their emergence and limited public reporting from established security researchers, detailed technical analysis of their tools, tactics, and procedures remains sparse. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting, though comprehensive law enforcement actions or major disruption efforts have not been publicly documented. The group has been linked to 145 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 24, 2023; most recent post November 19, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 21, 2024Arango Billboard listed by Meowon the group's public leak site

Data size: 15 GB

Other recent disclosures by Meow

Meow has been linked to 145 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Arango Billboard is reported in Colombia, a country with 66 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Meow means Arango Billboard 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Meow'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.