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brachot.com

Claimed by Blackbasta · listed 1 year ago

600 GB
Data size
4. Account records
17m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 11, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbasta
Status
Data leaked
Country
Belgium
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jan 11, 2025
Data size
600 GB
Records
4. Account

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Brachot (also trading as Brachot-Hermant) is an international specialist in natural stone, quartz, and porcelain materials. Operating from Deinze, Belgium, the company supplies slabs and tiles for interior and exterior applications, with quarries and production sites across multiple countries. They market brands including BQS® marble-look quartz worktops and Uniceramica® porcelain products.

Industry
Natural Stone & Engineered Materials Manufacturing
Address
E 3 Laan 86, 9800 Deinze, Belgium

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 600 GB encompassing financial data, employee PII, and proprietary technical/CAD drawings from a manufacturing company. Data published by the group. Sensitive business and personal information at scale.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 600 GB of data including departmental records, financial data, employee personal files and documents, accounting records, and CAD/technical drawings from Brachot's systems.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Departmental data
  • Financial records
  • Employee personal files and documents
  • Home folders
  • Accounting data
  • CAD data and technical drawings

What the group claims

Brachot is a leading specialist in natural stone and blended materials, operating under the name Brachot-Hermant. The company offers a diverse portfolio that includes ceramics, marble composites, and various natural stones for both interior and exterior applications. Established as a wholesaler, Brachot has expanded into an international player with multiple production sites and quarries across several countries.SITE: www.brachot.comADDRESS: E 3 Laan 86 9800 Deinze BelgiumTEL#: +32 9 381 81 81ALL DATA SIZE: ≈600gb+ 1. Departments data 2. Financial data 3. Home folders, Personal employees data and documents 4. Accounting 5. CAD data, drawings & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About blackbasta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor, compromising over 500 organizations globally within its first two years of operation. The group is suspected to have ties to Russia-based cybercriminal networks and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, and compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, then deploys custom tools and living-off-the-land techniques to move laterally through networks before deploying their ransomware payload that uses ChaCha20 encryption. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. Notable campaigns include attacks on major manufacturing companies, healthcare organizations, and critical infrastructure entities primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with the group showing particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, agriculture and food production, and transportation/logistics sectors. As of 2024, Black Basta remains active and continues to evolve its tactics, techniques, and procedures while maintaining a steady pace of victim recruitment and ransom collection operations. 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

  • January 11, 2025brachot.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site
Data size
600 GB
Records
4. Account

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 Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, brachot.com is reported in Belgium, a country with 28 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blackbasta means brachot.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.
  • 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.