Was Hostetler Buildings hit by ransomware?

Hostetler Buildings was listed by the Blacksuit 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 Blacksuit ransomware group?

Blacksuit 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 Hostetler Buildings breach?

Blacksuit published data attributed to Hostetler Buildings. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

H3co (formerly Hostetler Buildings)

listed as Hostetler Buildings · Claimed by Blacksuit · listed 2 years ago

22m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 13, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacksuit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 13, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

H3co, formerly known as Hostetler Buildings, is a Missouri-based manufacturer and solution provider founded in 1966. The company operates across feed mill manufacturing, poultry farm construction and supplies, and precision metal truss manufacturing, with headquarters in El Dorado Springs and multiple regional facilities. They position themselves as a values-driven enterprise serving farmers and agricultural stakeholders.

Industry: Agricultural & Industrial Manufacturing – Poultry Solutions, Feed Mills, Metal Buildings & Trusses
Address: 4065 E Hwy 54, El Dorado Springs, MO 64744
Founded: 1966

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the ransomware group (disclosed_status = 'data_published'), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, the leak post provided contains only generic company background text with no specific details about data type, volume, or sensitivity. Without visibility into actual proof files or inventory of what was taken, severity is assessed as medium pending further disclosure details.

Blacksuit claims to have breached H3co and published data. No specific details are provided in the leak post excerpt about what data was exfiltrated, the scope of encryption, or the nature of the stolen files.

medium

What the group claims

Hostetler Buildings has grown a lot since we started in 1966. And we continue to grow. But there’s several things that have never changed. The root of our success has always been commitment to people and quality. Our focus is people-driven. And our purpose is consistent: To inspire others to grow and build with purpose, and to build value-added solutions.

Sources

Victim sitehostetlergroup.com
Leak posthttp://weg7sdx54bevnvulapqu6bpzwztryeflq3s23tegbmnhkbpqz637f2yd.onion/?id=pdKvXBxSAJC7MF3A

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 Blacksuit

Blacksuit is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with 184 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a traditional RaaS model. Blacksuit primarily targets organizations through common initial access vectors and employs standard ransomware deployment techniques, though detailed technical analysis of their specific encryption methods and whether they consistently employ double extortion tactics has not been widely published by major security firms. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting business services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors, with their victims predominantly located in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as Spain and Germany. As of current reporting, Blacksuit remains an active ransomware operation with no publicly documented law enforcement disruptions or significant rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 184 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post June 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: black suit.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 13, 2024Hostetler Buildings listed by Blacksuiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blacksuit

Blacksuit has been linked to 184 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Blacksuit dossier →

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, Hostetler Buildings is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blacksuit means Hostetler Buildings 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 Blacksuit'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.