Skip to main content
Darkfield

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

Distribution Alternatives, Inc.

listed as daserv.com · Claimed by Black Basta · listed 2 years ago

450 GB
Data size
2. Employees records
20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 29, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Black Basta
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Oct 29, 2024
Data size
450 GB
Records
2. Employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Distribution Alternatives, Inc. is a full-service 3PL provider offering warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution services to e-commerce and retail brands. Operating for 90 years with locations in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Houston, the company serves 150+ high-growth brands with pick-and-pack fulfillment, EDI processing, kitting/assembly, and LTL shipping.

Industry
Third-Party Logistics (3PL) & Fulfillment Services
Address
6870 21st Avenue South, Lino Lakes, Minnesota 55038, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 450 GB including regulated financial data, employee PII, customer PII, tax documents, and confidential agreements from a logistics provider serving major brands. Scale and sensitivity of exposed data meets critical threshold.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 450 GB of data from Distribution Alternatives. The threat actor alleges access to financial records, employee and customer personal information, HR files, tax documents, 401(k) forms, and confidential agreements.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Financial data and accounting records
  • Employee personal information and forms
  • Customer personal information and forms
  • Human Resources records
  • Tax and 401(k) forms
  • Confidential agreements and NDAs

What the group claims

Distribution Alternatives, Inc. (DA) is a third-party logistics (3PL) company that offers warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution services: DA offers a range of services, including warehousing, pick and pack fulfillment, LTL shipping, EDI processing, and more. They also provide direct-to-consumer fulfillment for e-commerce and catalog orders.SITE: www.daserv.com Address : 6870 21st Avenue South Lino Lakes, Minnesota 55038 United StitesTEL#: 800-346-3245ALL DATA SIZE: ≈450gb 1. Financial data, Accounting 2. Employees, Customers forms with personal info 3. Human Resources 4. Users folders with personal docs 5. Tax, 401k data forms, confidential agrements, NDAs… & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

Is this your supplier? Your competitor? You?

Pro plans monitor your domain, corporate emails, and crypto wallets across every new ransomware leak-site post, breach dump and Telegram callout — alerts within 5 minutes.

Disclosure context

About Black Basta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has since compromised approximately 800 organizations worldwide. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with suspected ties to the now-defunct Conti ransomware operation, though their exact country of origin remains unconfirmed by law enforcement agencies. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of known vulnerabilities, and credential stuffing attacks, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware that employs ChaCha20 encryption algorithm and employs double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with a particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. Notable victims have included various healthcare systems and manufacturing companies, though specific ransom amounts and high-profile attacks have not been widely disclosed in public law enforcement advisories. As of 2024, Black Basta remains an active threat with continued operations and regular updates to their leak site indicating ongoing compromise activities. The group has been linked to 1,323 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2022; most recent post January 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: BlackBasta.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 29, 2024daserv.com listed by Black Bastaon the group's public leak site
Data size
450 GB
Records
2. Employees

Other recent disclosures by Black Basta

Black Basta has been linked to 1,323 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Black Basta dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, daserv.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black Basta means daserv.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 Black Basta'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.