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organizedliving.com

Claimed by Blackbasta · listed 2 years ago

28m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 27, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbasta
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Mar 27, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Organized Living is America's leading brand in closet storage and home organization solutions, operating for over 100 years. They design and manufacture customizable storage systems (wire shelving, wood systems, built-ins) sold through a nationwide network of installing dealers and direct channels. The company is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Industry
Home Storage & Organization Products Manufacturing
Address
3100 East Kemper Road, Cincinnati, OH 45241, USA

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 620 GB spanning multiple sensitive data categories (accounting, HR, user data, engineering) representing significant business and personal information compromise. Data has been published by the threat actor.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 620 GB of company data including company records, accounting, HR, user data, and engineering files. The group has published this data, indicating both encryption and data exfiltration.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company data
  • Accounting records
  • HR records
  • User data
  • Engineering data

What the group claims

Organized Living is the industry-leader of high-quality home storage and organization products. With our full breadth of product lines, we make storage for every area of the home easy. The Organized Living legacy focuses on leveraging technology and innovation to address trends in the building industry.SITE: www.organizedliving.com Address : Organized Living 3100 East Kemper Road Cincinnati, OH 45241 USAALL DATA SIZE: ~620gb 1. Company data 2. Accounting 3. HR 4. Users 5. Engineering & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About blackbasta

Black Basta is a highly sophisticated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and operates with a primary motivation of financial extortion, having rapidly established itself as one of the most prolific ransomware operations of the modern era with over 500 confirmed victims globally. The group is widely assessed by researchers including Mandiant and CISA to have likely ties to former members of the Conti ransomware syndicate following that group's dissolution in mid-2022, and operates as a private Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with a closed affiliate structure rather than open recruitment, with suspected links to the FIN7 threat actor cluster based on observed tooling overlaps documented by SentinelOne and Microsoft. Black Basta employs a double extortion methodology, exfiltrating sensitive victim data prior to encryption and threatening publication on their Tor-based leak site "Basta News" to compound pressure on victims; initial access is predominantly achieved through phishing campaigns, purchase of stolen credentials, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities including QakBot malware distribution, with the group subsequently deploying tools such as Cobalt Strike, SystemBC, and their custom encryptor targeting both Windows and VMware ESXi environments using a ChaCha20 encryption algorithm. Per CISA and FBI joint advisory AA24-131A published in May 2024, the group has struck over 500 organizations across North America, Europe, and Australia, with high-profile victims including Ascension Health, Capita, the American Dental Association, and Rheinmetall, demonstrating a clear preference for manufacturing, business services, technology, transportation, and food production sectors across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy. As of the time of available public reporting, Black Basta remained operationally active, though internal chat logs leaked in early 2025 revealed significant internal tensions and potential organizational fragmentation that security researchers assessed could impact the group's near-term operational cohesion. The group has been linked to 523 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.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 27, 2024organizedliving.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by blackbasta

blackbasta has been linked to 523 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, organizedliving.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blackbasta means organizedliving.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 blackbasta'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.