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Compra LTD Aruba

Claimed by Blacklock · listed 1 year ago

110 employees
Records
$9.7M
Ransom
demanded
14m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 16, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blacklock
Status
Data leaked
Country
Aruba
Listed on leak site
May 16, 2025
Records
110 employees
Ransom demanded
$9.7M
Estimated revenue
$9.7M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Compra Ltd. is Aruba's largest food and non-food supplier, founded in 1948 with over 110 employees. The company operates retail, food service, and warehouse operations spanning over 10,000 m² of climate-controlled storage, distributing international brands across the island.

Industry
Food & Beverage Distribution; Wholesale & Retail
Address
Aruba
Employees
110
Founded
1948

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration with operational disruption to Aruba's critical food supply chain; significant ransom demand ($9.7M) suggests substantial data volume; retail/food distribution sector serves essential infrastructure role.

BlackLock claims to have encrypted and exfiltrated data from Compra Ltd. The group has published the victim on their leak site, demanding $9.7M in ransom, though specific data categories are not detailed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • business records
  • customer data
  • operational/logistics information

What the group claims

Revenue $9.7 Million Founded in 1948, Compra Ltd. with over 110 employees continues to be Aruba’s largest supplier of food and non-food, with the widest assortment of products.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About blacklock

Based on the limited publicly available information, Blacklock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in May 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations targeting organizations across multiple countries and sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear from documented sources, and there is insufficient public reporting to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. With 64 documented victims since their emergence, Blacklock has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across the United States, Canada, Spain, India, and the United Kingdom, with particular focus on technology, construction, manufacturing, and consumer services sectors, though their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption tactics have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public reporting from established threat intelligence sources, notable campaigns and specific technical details of their operations remain largely undocumented in publicly available security research. As of current reporting, the group appears to remain active given their recent emergence date, though comprehensive analysis of their operational status requires additional documentation from established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 64 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 16, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 16, 2025Compra LTD Aruba listed by blacklockon the group's public leak site
Records
110 employees
Ransom demanded
$9.7M

Other recent disclosures by blacklock

blacklock has been linked to 64 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Compra LTD Aruba is reported in Aruba, a country with 3 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacklock means Compra LTD Aruba 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 blacklock'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.