M3 Group
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Full breach record for M3 Group →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Founded in Lansing more than 11 years ago by Dowling, M3 Group prides itself on being the only local agency that offers the most comprehensive array of integrated branding, marketing and advertising services in the mid-Michigan region. M3 Group has grown into one of the largest and most respected agencies in the area. For more than a decade, M3 Group has built and refined strong brands through integrated marketing strategies that keep the client's goals and its bottom line in mind. M3 Group's award-winning staff works across traditional and nontraditional platforms, offering an array of market research and consulting, media planning and buying, website development, social and digital media marketing, public relations and promotions, video and audio production, corporate brand development, and graphic design. Take your brand to the next level by visiting M3Group.biz
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Mar 24, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
Not assessable
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
dragonforce
According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.