Was Strand Ag Supply hit by ransomware?

Strand Ag Supply was listed by the Sarcoma 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 Sarcoma ransomware group?

Sarcoma 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 Strand Ag Supply breach?

Sarcoma published data attributed to Strand Ag Supply (~16 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Strand Ag Supply

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 1 year ago

16 GB

Data size

13m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 4, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sarcoma
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Jun 4, 2025
Data size: 16 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Strand Ag Supply is a poultry and agricultural equipment distributor founded in 1999 by Steve Strand after purchasing the predecessor business Balswick's Poultry. They supply a range of products from fasteners to grain storage silos to farmers of all sizes across the United States.

Industry: Agricultural Equipment Distribution
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of 16 GB of business data with published archive; no indication of regulated/sensitive personal data at scale, but operational and business confidentiality impact is material for a mid-sized distributor.

Sarcoma claims to have exfiltrated 16 GB of data from Strand Ag Supply. The group has published the data archive and references files as proof.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

business files
company records

What the group claims

Strand Ag Supply Steve Strand began working at the old Balswick's Poultry back in 1984. After questioning where his career would take him, Steve jumped at an opportunity to buy the company in 1999. That was the year that Strand Ag Supply was born. Today, Strand Ag Supply is a large distributor for poultry equipment. From nuts and bolts to large silos for grain storage, there is little that Strand Ag Supply does not provide to help farmers, small or large, work more efficiently during production. And that is our whole goal at Strand Ag: To provide the best equipment and superior service to help our customers produce at the highest levels.Geo: USA - Leak size: 16 GB Archive - Contains: Files

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 4, 2025Strand Ag Supply listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 16 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Strand Ag Supply is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means Strand Ag Supply 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 Sarcoma'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.