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Continental Serves

listed as continentalserves.com · Claimed by Black Basta · listed 2 years ago

900 GB
Data size
1. Users records
20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 19, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Black Basta
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site
Nov 19, 2024
Data size
900 GB
Records
1. Users

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Continental is a Midwest-based workplace food and beverage provider founded in Detroit in 1989. They offer vending, micro-markets, office coffee services, on-site dining, meal delivery, and catering across Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. They serve clients ranging from large international manufacturers to small businesses across multiple sectors including technology, healthcare, and education.

Industry
Workplace Food & Beverage Services / Contract Dining
Address
700 Stephenson Hwy, Troy, MI 48083, United States
Employees
51-250
Founded
1989

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 900 GB of sensitive data including employee PII, financial records, tax data, and confidential business documents at a company with likely 100+ employees. Data is published with no ransom demanded, indicating active disclosure threat.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 900 GB of data from Continental's systems. The group asserts access to employee personal folders, financial records, tax data, NDAs, confidential business documents, and human resources information.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee personal folders and documents
  • Financial data
  • Tax records
  • NDAs and confidential agreements
  • Human Resources records
  • Personal employee documents

What the group claims

CULTURE-BUILDING EXPERTS Founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1989, Continental has grown from an office coffee and vending provider to the Midwest leader in workplace food and beverage offerings. Spanning across Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and into Pennsylvania and New York through the acquisition of Cuyahoga Franklin Group, Continental serves clients of all sizes, from international industry leaders to small businesses, including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, education, commerce and more. With a cutting-edge technology suite, best-in-class logistics and infrastructure, and a commitment to personal client attention, we consistently rank as one of the top contract dining and refreshment providers in the nation. From 24/7 micro-markets to full-service cafés and food delivery, our customized programs provide the resources of a global company with the responsiveness only a local partner can offer.SITE: www.continentalserves.com Address : 700 Stephenson Hwy, Troy, MI 48083 United StatesTEL#: 248.414.1700ALL DATA SIZE: ≈900gb 1. Users, employees personal folders and docs 2. Financial data 3. Personal documents employees 4. Tax data 5. NDA’s, Confidential data 6. Human Resources & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Black Basta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has since compromised approximately 800 organizations worldwide. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with suspected ties to the now-defunct Conti ransomware operation, though their exact country of origin remains unconfirmed by law enforcement agencies. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of known vulnerabilities, and credential stuffing attacks, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware that employs ChaCha20 encryption algorithm and employs double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with a particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. Notable victims have included various healthcare systems and manufacturing companies, though specific ransom amounts and high-profile attacks have not been widely disclosed in public law enforcement advisories. As of 2024, Black Basta remains an active threat with continued operations and regular updates to their leak site indicating ongoing compromise activities. The group has been linked to 1,323 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.

Also tracked as: BlackBasta.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 19, 2024continentalserves.com listed by Black Bastaon the group's public leak site
Data size
900 GB
Records
1. Users

Other recent disclosures by Black Basta

Black Basta has been linked to 1,323 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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, continentalserves.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black Basta means continentalserves.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 Black Basta'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.