Was avril.ca hit by ransomware?

avril.ca was listed by the Black Basta ransomware operation (Canada), 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 Black Basta ransomware group?

Black Basta 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 avril.ca breach?

Black Basta published data attributed to avril.ca (~550 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Avril Supermarché Santé

listed as avril.ca · Claimed by Black Basta · listed 2 years ago

550 GB

Data size

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 11, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Black Basta
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Jan 11, 2025
Data size: 550 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Avril Supermarché Santé is an independent health food supermarket chain based in Quebec, Canada, operating multiple stores across the province. The company specializes in natural and organic products, including groceries, supplements, beauty items, and ready-to-eat meals, with a focus on promoting healthy lifestyle choices.

Industry: Health Food Retail & Supermarket Chain
Address: 11 rue Évangéline, Granby, Quebec, J2G 6N3, Canada
Founded: 1995

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 550 GB including financial records, HR data, and personal employee documents. Data publication confirmed (disclosed_status: data_published). Retail chain with operational exposure across multiple Quebec locations.

Black Basta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 550 GB of data from Avril Supermarché Santé. The disclosed inventory includes financial records, accounting data, human resources files, personal employee documents, management records, and marketing materials.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial data
Accounting records
Human Resources files
Personal employee documents
Management/DirectionMagasin records
Marketing materials

What the group claims

Avril Supermarché Santé, an independent health food supermarket chain based in Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1995, Avril aims to promote a healthy lifestyle by making natural and organic products accessible to everyone. The company operates multiple stores across Quebec and offers a wide range of products, including groceries, supplements, beauty items, and ready-to-eat meals.SITE: www.avril.caADDRESS: 11 rue Évangéline Granby, Quebec, J2G 6N3 Canada.TEL#: 1-844-375-6446ALL DATA SIZE: ≈550gb+ 1. Financial data, Accounting 2. Human Resources 3. Personal employees documents 4. DirectionMagasin 5. Marketing & etc…

Sources

Victim siteavril.ca

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

January 11, 2025avril.ca listed by Black Bastaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 550 GB

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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, avril.ca is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black Basta means avril.ca 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, CCCS (Canada), 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.