Was diligentusa.com hit by ransomware?

diligentusa.com was listed by the Embargo 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 Embargo ransomware group?

Embargo 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 diligentusa.com breach?

Embargo published data attributed to diligentusa.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Diligent Delivery Systems

listed as diligentusa.com · Claimed by Embargo · listed 2 years ago

24m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 11, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Embargo
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 11, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Diligent Delivery Systems is a nationwide transportation, shipping, and logistics service provider headquartered in Houston, Texas. They offer hot shot delivery, healthcare courier services, fleet management, warehouse and distribution, over-the-road trucking (LTL & FTL), and white-glove delivery solutions to businesses across multiple industries.

Industry: Transportation & Logistics Services
Address: 9200 Derrington Road, Suite #100 & #200, Houston, TX 77064

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 600+ GB including executive communications, financial records, and NDA-protected client data. Sensitive business intelligence (financial distress, M&A activity) and client information exposure. No regulated/personal data at individual consumer scale mentioned, but significant business harm and potential downstream client impact.

The Embargo group claims to have exfiltrated 600+ GB of data including complete email collections since January 2024 for four executives (CEO, CFO, COO, Legal Counsel), database backups, client documents under NDA, and other company records. The group asserts the exfiltration reveals undisclosed financial distress, including $23 million in cash uses over 18 months and refinancing/sale negotiations.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Executive email accounts (4 executives, Jan 2024 onwards)
Database backups
Client documents (NDA-protected)
Financial records
Internal company documents
Employee contact information and roles

What the group claims

Diligent Delivery Systems provides transportation services for businesses within varying industries. Major clients include WorldPac and PharMerica. The company is currently facing tight liquidity and debt default due 23 million cash uses within the past 18 months. Management has been tasked with refinancing existing debt, sourcing a new investor, or selling the business. - Total leak size: 600+ GB For any clients and buyers who have interest in working with Diligent or investing/buying this company, we have invaluable data for you. All documents and the entire collection of emails since January 1 2024 for: - Larry Browne (CEO) - Darl Petty (CFO) - Carlos Navarro (COO) - Alan Geraldi (Legal Counsel) Additionally, we have database backups, documents belonging to clients (protected by NDA), and more. If you had doubts about the financial situation of this company, no need to doubt. We will be releasing the entire collection shortly. The company will try to deny that they have these financial difficulties and that they are trying to sell the company, but these emails and documents tell different story. Some contacts for you: Larry Browne [email protected] [email protected] (713) 906-4385 (281) 854-1300 713-906-9253 713-906-4385 President Darl Petty [email protected] 713-906-6167 281-854-1313 CFO Carlos Navarro [email protected] 713.205.8861 (713)275-2555 713-377-2799 COO Alan Geraldi [email protected] (281)948-2604 (832)300-3595 General Counsel (Legal) Lisa Musick [email protected] (713)906-7317 (281)854-1301 Executive Assistant Scott Bruder [email protected] (713)906-0070 (281)854-1317 VP of National Sales Automative Dawn Vesey [email protected] 615.719.0481 HR Director Tim Barrett [email protected] 615-362-6799 629-335-3399 Director of Information Technologies Ed Saddler [email protected] (346)988-7464 Information Technology Level 2 Support Ron Lewis [email protected]

Sources

Victim sitediligentusa.com
Leak posthttp://embargobe3n5okxyzqphpmk3moinoap2snz5k6765mvtkk7hhi544jid.onion/#/post/31

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Embargo

Embargo is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on high-value targets across multiple sectors. The group has been observed targeting victims predominantly in the United States, Singapore, India, and France, with particular emphasis on technology, healthcare, manufacturing, business services, and financial sectors. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details about their country of origin, operational structure, and technical methodologies remain largely unconfirmed by established security research organizations. With 37 known victims identified since their emergence, Embargo appears to follow established ransomware operational patterns typical of financially-motivated cybercriminal groups, though comprehensive analysis of their attack vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics has not yet been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. The group's targeting of critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare and financial services aligns with broader ransomware trends observed throughout 2024, though specific notable campaigns or high-profile attacks have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reporting. As of current observations, Embargo appears to remain active, though the limited timeframe since their emergence and sparse public documentation makes definitive assessment of their operational status challenging without additional confirmed reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 40 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 21, 2024; most recent post June 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 11, 2024diligentusa.com listed by Embargoon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Embargo

Embargo has been linked to 40 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, diligentusa.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Embargo means diligentusa.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 Embargo'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.