Lexington Electric
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Full breach record for Lexington Electric →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lynx 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
Lexington Electric System is a public utility owned by the city of Lexington, Tennessee. The City of Lexington's electrical operation began in 1939 with the purchase of holdings from Tennessee Electric Power Company for $132,181.77. Lexington Electric System was formed by the Mayor and Board of Alderman at this time. A Power Committee was appointed consisting of E.A. Hay, H.H. Threadgill, and Coy Stewart. Herman Austin was appointed the first Manager of Lexington Electric System and served in this capacity from July 31,1939 to September 30, 1963. Since 1939, Lexington Electric has expanded into Henderson, Carroll, Decatur, and Hardin Counties.
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Jan 29, 2025
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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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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lynx
According to ransomware.live, Lynx is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in mid-2024 as a rebrand of INC Ransomware (whose source code was sold for $300,000 on the RAMP forum), claiming ~300 victims across manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation with an 80/20 profit split for affiliates.