Heartland Growers
About the organisation
Heartland Growers is a full-service wholesale greenhouse located in Westfield, Indiana, owned and operated by the Gapinski Family since 1984. The company supplies wholesale plants to independent garden centers, florists, landscapers, and national chain stores throughout the Midwest. With a modern and capital-intensive facility covering over 30 acres, Heartland Growers produces a variety of plants including bedding plants, geraniums, lilies, and hanging baskets. The company is committed to maintaining quality and service as top priorities for its customers
What the listing means
Heartland Growers appeared on the dragonforce leak site on 24 May 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 39 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Heartland Growers as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on heartlandgrowers.com, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Agriculture and Food Production organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/SGVhcnRsYW5kIEdyb3dlcnNAZHJhZ29uZm9yY2U=
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
