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Staples

Claimed by Siegedsec · listed 3 years ago

31m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 9, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Siegedsec
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Retail & Consumer
Listed on leak site
Dec 9, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Staples is a large American retail chain specializing in office supplies, business services, print and marketing, technology products, and furniture. Operating both physical stores across the United States and a major e-commerce platform at staples.com, the company serves individual consumers, small businesses, and enterprise customers. It is one of the largest office-supply retailers in the world.

Industry
Office Supplies & Business Services Retail
Address
500 Staples Drive, Framingham, MA 01702, United States
Employees
10000+
Founded
1986

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is marked as published ('data_published') by the group against a major national retailer, indicating confirmed exfiltration of business data at significant scale; however, the specific data types and volume are not described, preventing a 'critical' classification.

SiegedSec claims to have exfiltrated data from Staples and has published the data; no ransom demand was stated and no specific data volume was disclosed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Undisclosed exfiltrated company data

What the group claims

retail

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Siegedsec

SiegedSec is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in December 2023, primarily motivated by hacktivism with a strong focus on anti-Israeli sentiment rather than traditional financial gain through ransomware operations. The group appears to operate independently with suspected ideological motivations tied to pro-Palestinian activism, though their exact geographic origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Unlike traditional ransomware groups, SiegedSec appears to focus on data theft and public exposure of sensitive information rather than encryption-based extortion, primarily targeting Israeli government entities through opportunistic attacks that exploit web application vulnerabilities and exposed credentials. The group has maintained a relatively low profile with 19 documented victims, almost exclusively targeting Israeli government infrastructure in what appears to be coordinated ideological attacks rather than broad financial campaigns. Based on available reporting, SiegedSec remains active as of late 2023 and early 2024, continuing their focused campaign against Israeli targets through data exfiltration and public disclosure operations. The group has been linked to 19 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 8, 2023; most recent post December 9, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 9, 2023Staples listed by Siegedsecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Siegedsec

Siegedsec has been linked to 19 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Siegedsec dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & Consumer sector, which has 157 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Staples is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Siegedsec means Staples 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 Siegedsec'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.