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AcmeFan

bd_342afe5b96e55b00 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 16, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for AcmeFan

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.

Group activity: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2025-02-25

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Acme Engineering and Manufacturing Corporation is known worldwide as a leader in the manufacture of fans, blowers, and ventilation equipment. Acme’s growth over the past half century is a tribute to superior quality, customer loyalty, and dedicated employees and sales representatives. Today, from its headquarters in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Acme serves customers worldwide with high quality air movement and control products and with approximately 500,000 square feet of manufacturing space, Acme produces one of the broadest lines of air moving equipment in the industry. State-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and a well trained, experienced workforce is the key to Acme’s timely delivery of quality air moving products. The Acme Research and Engineering Center operates both air and sound laboratories. The Center houses three wind tunnels with a data acquisition system, a reverberant sound room with the latest sound analyzer equipment, and a structural laboratory for stress and vibration analysis. Solid modeling, and finite element analysis support product research and development. The Center also houses a fully equipped prototype facility enabling Acme to develop and introduce new products to the market in the shortest time possible. A factory trained, knowledgeable sales organization addresses the needs of many diverse and distinct markets. Customers around the world are serviced by a complete system of sales representatives, equipment distributors and local dealers supported by nationwide distribution centers and backed by a staff of sales and marketing professionals. A highly trained engineering and production staff set the standard for dependable, quality air moving products. By using the latest computer techniques for research and design, and rigorous quality control standards Acme can offer one of the best warranty programs in the industry. Our exclusive 2/5 year limite

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Feb 16, 2025

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

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

About this groupFirst seen 2023-05-22

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.

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