Was theshootingwarehouse.com hit by ransomware?

theshootingwarehouse.com was listed by the blackbasta 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 blackbasta ransomware group?

blackbasta 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 theshootingwarehouse.com breach?

blackbasta published data attributed to theshootingwarehouse.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Sports South, LLC

listed as theshootingwarehouse.com · Claimed by Blackbasta · listed 2 years ago

28m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 27, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blackbasta
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 27, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sports South, LLC is a family-owned firearms, ammunition, and accessories distributor based in Shreveport, Louisiana. The company claims to be the nation's oldest and largest distributor in its sector, serving customers nationwide with inventory from leading manufacturers.

Industry: Firearms & Ammunition Distribution
Address: 101 Robert G. Harris Dr, Shreveport, LA 71115, USA
Employees: hundreds

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of ~800 GB including HR, payroll, accounting, and personal data affecting hundreds of employees. Firearms distributor status adds operational sensitivity, and scale of data is significant.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 800 GB of data from Sports South, including department records, human resources files, accounting and payroll information, and personal data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Department data
Human Resources files
Accounting records
Payroll data
Personal data

What the group claims

Sports South is a family company and these values permeate its culture to all its employees and its customers. Hard work, education, and hands-on involvement, along with the assured well-being and livelihood of hundreds of employees, reinforce the company’s dedication to its origin. As the country’s oldest and largest distributor of firearms, ammunition, and accessories, Sports South maintains its leadership position through the relentless pursuit of new ideas and new thinking to drive long-term success and growth. With the nation’s largest concentration of shooting sports inventory from all the leading manufacturers under one roof, Sports South can deliver unmatched distribution services to its customers.SITE: www.theshootingwarehouse.com Address : Sports South, LLC 101 Robert G. Harris Dr Shreveport, LA 71115 USAALL DATA SIZE: ~800gb 1. Department data 2. Human Resources 3. Accounting, payroll 4. Personal data & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About blackbasta

Black Basta is a highly sophisticated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and operates with a primary motivation of financial extortion, having rapidly established itself as one of the most prolific ransomware operations of the modern era with over 500 confirmed victims globally. The group is widely assessed by researchers including Mandiant and CISA to have likely ties to former members of the Conti ransomware syndicate following that group's dissolution in mid-2022, and operates as a private Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with a closed affiliate structure rather than open recruitment, with suspected links to the FIN7 threat actor cluster based on observed tooling overlaps documented by SentinelOne and Microsoft. Black Basta employs a double extortion methodology, exfiltrating sensitive victim data prior to encryption and threatening publication on their Tor-based leak site "Basta News" to compound pressure on victims; initial access is predominantly achieved through phishing campaigns, purchase of stolen credentials, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities including QakBot malware distribution, with the group subsequently deploying tools such as Cobalt Strike, SystemBC, and their custom encryptor targeting both Windows and VMware ESXi environments using a ChaCha20 encryption algorithm. Per CISA and FBI joint advisory AA24-131A published in May 2024, the group has struck over 500 organizations across North America, Europe, and Australia, with high-profile victims including Ascension Health, Capita, the American Dental Association, and Rheinmetall, demonstrating a clear preference for manufacturing, business services, technology, transportation, and food production sectors across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy. As of the time of available public reporting, Black Basta remained operationally active, though internal chat logs leaked in early 2025 revealed significant internal tensions and potential organizational fragmentation that security researchers assessed could impact the group's near-term operational cohesion. 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

March 27, 2024theshootingwarehouse.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by blackbasta

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, theshootingwarehouse.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blackbasta means theshootingwarehouse.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 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.