Was Gardeners' Guild hit by ransomware?

Gardeners' Guild was listed by the Storm ransomware operation (United States), 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 Storm ransomware group?

Storm 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 Gardeners' Guild breach?

Storm published data attributed to Gardeners' Guild. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Gardeners' Guild

Claimed by Storm · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Storm
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Sep 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gardeners' Guild is an employee-owned full-service landscaping company founded in 1972, based in the SF Bay Area. They specialize in interior and exterior landscape maintenance, construction, irrigation design and repair, sustainable landscaping, and fire fuel reduction services for commercial and residential clients.

Industry: Landscape Maintenance & Construction Services
Address: 2780 Goodrick Avenue, Richmond, CA 94801, United States
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1972

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or sample data are advertised in the post. No operational disruption is stated. The disclosure is an announcement only, with no evidence of data exfiltration or encryption impact.

The group claims to have accessed Gardeners' Guild systems and published data. The leak post does not specify whether data was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both, nor does it detail what categories of data are at stake.

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What the group claims

Gardeners' Guild is a full-service landscaping company based in the SF Bay Area, specializing in both interior and exterior landscape maintenance and construction. Founded in 1972 and employee-owned, they offer a range of services including irrigation repair, sustainable landscaping, and fire fuel reduction. Their clients include multi-family communities, commercial buildings, business parks, hospitality venues, and residential properties. The company is dedicated to transforming and maintaining landscapes while promoting water conservation and drought-tolerant designs. The company headquarters is located in 2780 Goodrick Avenue, Richmond, CA 94801, United States. 51-200 Employees

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Storm

Storm is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting profile, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and relatively small victim footprint. The group has claimed or been attributed to attacks against at least six known victims, with the United States representing its primary target geography. Storm has demonstrated a preference for targeting the healthcare and manufacturing sectors, alongside a broader category of other industries, suggesting an opportunistic rather than highly specialized targeting philosophy. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited victim count, comprehensive technical details regarding its initial access vectors, encryption methodology, tooling, or affiliation with known threat actor ecosystems have not yet been formally documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other major threat intelligence publishers as of the time of this writing. No confirmed RaaS infrastructure, dark web leak site activity, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly attributed or reported in open sources. Given its nascent operational timeline beginning in 2026, Storm should be monitored as an emerging threat, particularly within the healthcare sector where ransomware attacks carry significant operational and patient safety implications, but analysts should treat any further characterization beyond the known victim and targeting data with caution pending additional corroborating intelligence. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post September 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 30, 2026Gardeners' Guild listed by Storm on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Storm

Storm has been linked to 78 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 777 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gardeners' Guild is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Storm means Gardeners' Guild 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 Storm'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.