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GLOBALMalwareManufacturingManufacturingRansomwareDark ProjectRansom DemandedActor NamedData Leak ThreatenedMedium

Franklin Miller Inc.

bd_0d8dac3d69b54733 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 12, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Franklin Miller Inc. →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Dark Project 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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2026-10-12

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

About Franklin Miller Inc. Franklin Miller has been engineering wastewater grinders, crushers, shredders, and screens for municipal and industrial applications since 1918. Their products are designed for reliability and efficiency, catering to industries such as wastewater treatment, food processing, mining, oil and gas, and recycling. The company is committed to providing comprehensive post-sale support, ensuring that their equipment operates at peak performance. Trusted by industry leaders worldwide, Franklin Miller's equipment is precision manufactured in the USA to handle the toughest jobs. As a result of the attack on "Franklin Miller", more than 250 GB of confidential data were stolen. The organization lost control over documents such as drawings and project documentation, confidential agreements, banking and other financial information, as well as employees’ personal data.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 12, 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.

Source ceiling

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  • materiality
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  • affected count
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