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Progeny Ag Products

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 21, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Progeny Ag Products →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen 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.

Group activity: TechnologyDiscovered: 2026-09-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

progenyag.com zoominfo.com/c/progeny-ag/351504348 Erwin-Keith, Inc. (Progeny Ag Products) is a family-owned seed and grain company founded in 1984 in the Arkansas Delta (Wynne, Arkansas, USA), operating under the Progeny brand since 1997. The company develops and markets its own varieties of soybeans, corn, wheat, and rice, selling across 10–11 Southern U.S. states. Its rice brand ProGold is licensed from the University of Arkansas — and ProGold L4 and M3 varieties are now included in the university's official 2026 recommended planting list. Beyond seeds, the company runs grain elevators (including a rail facility), a trucking fleet across 9 states, and grain marketing programs (HTA, basis-only, and average pricing contracts). Estimated revenue is around $26 million with roughly 100+ employees (seasonal workforce included), and the business remains led by the founding Erwin and Keith families.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 21, 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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

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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About this groupFirst seen 2023-02-28

thegentlemen

According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.

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