Youngstown Pipe & Steel
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Full breach record for Youngstown Pipe & Steel →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sinobi 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
Youngstown Pipe & Steel, LLC (YPS), located in Campbell, OH, is a steel service center specializing in the value-added processing and distribution of carbon and alloy steel products in an expanding array of shapes and sizes. Our company is comprised of experienced, community-minded associates. We are committed to achieving profitable growth and creating superior value for our customers by safely providing high quality products and services while delivering them on time. YPS was founded in 1979 and acquired by DNV Management Corporation in 2004. Since its acquisition, DNV has expanded product lines, installed a high definition plasma burning table, oxy-fuel burning tables, multiple saws and other equipment for value added processing. We deliver our products utilizing a dedicated fleet of trucks and in 2011, relocated to a 300,000 sq. ft. warehouse. In 2012 DNV Management created DNV Energy to concentrate on the growing product and service demands of the shale oil and gas industry.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jan 11, 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
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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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sinobi
According to ransomware.live, Sinobi is a private vetted-affiliate RaaS group that emerged in mid-2025, believed to be a rebrand of the Lynx/INC ransomware lineage, claiming 176 victims by end of 2025 through double-extortion attacks primarily against mid-market US organizations via compromised SonicWall VPN credentials.