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Engineered Machine Tool

bd_15b75da05b6c0f56 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

May 3, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group M3rx 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2026-05-03

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

+1 3169426147 . Engineered Machine Tool, Inc., based in Wichita, Kansas, specializes in providing manufacturing firms with custom machinery and tooling designed to enhance production efficiency. Since 1987, the company has developed a range of automated machines and equipment, including Automatic Storage and Retrieval Systems and Large Tool Palletizing Systems. EMT offers comprehensive services from initial concept through to complete installation, ensuring tailored solutions for their clients' specific needs. Their focus is on delivering high-performance automation tools for various industrial applications Stolen: 180gb 698k files

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 3, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2026-04-29

m3rx

According to ransomware.live, M3rx is a small ransomware group first observed in 2025, using AES-CTR/AES-GCM encryption and targeting organizations in England, the US, Australia, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, with around eight claimed victims including a Sydney-based property firm.

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