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bayareaherbs.com

Claimed by Lynx · listed 2 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 10, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lynx
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
May 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bay Area Herbs & Specialties is a US-based supplier of fresh culinary herbs and specialty produce, operating for nearly 20 years. The company sources products from top growers and serves retailers, foodservice distributors, and wholesalers across the US market. It emphasizes sustainability and innovative packaging as part of its operations.

Industry
Fresh Culinary Herbs & Specialty Produce Supply

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration or at least data exposure; however, no details on data type, volume, or sensitivity are provided, preventing a higher severity classification.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have attacked Bay Area Herbs & Specialties and has published data associated with the victim. The specific nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and the categories of data at stake are not detailed in the post.

medium

What the group claims

Bay Area Herbs & Specialties is a leading supplier of fresh culinary herbs and specialty produce, serving the US market for nearly 20 years. They collaborate with top growers to provide high-quality products to retailers, foodservice distributors, and wholesalers. The company is committed to sustainability and innovative packaging, ensuring efficient delivery and customer satisfaction. Their expertise in the specialty produce category positions them as a trusted partner for chefs and businesses alike.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Lynx

Lynx is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid scaling capabilities with 397 documented victims within their first few months of operation. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting patterns suggest a sophisticated operation that may operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on their victim distribution, Lynx appears to employ broad-spectrum targeting methodologies focusing heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Australia representing their primary geographic targets, while concentrating their attacks on manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation/logistics sectors, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not yet been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have gained significant public attention from law enforcement agencies or established threat intelligence firms. As of late 2024, Lynx appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or operational changes. The group has been linked to 414 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 10, 2026bayareaherbs.com listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, bayareaherbs.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lynx means bayareaherbs.com 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 Lynx'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.