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Metro Wire & Cable

bd_3aa00ad39ba4e82b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 26, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Metro Wire & Cable

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Spacebears 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: 2025-01-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Metro Wire & Cable—one of the nation’s top 150 electrical distributors—provides warehousing, supply chain and delivery services of wire and cable products for a broad spectrum of markets. These markets include public utilities, electrical contractors, wind farm developers, commercial and industrial HVAC industries, traffic and transportation sectors, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) and the security/low voltage industries.Our company was founded in Detroit in 1976 and since then we’ve only continued to grow. Our Southeast Regional Distribution Center was established in Atlanta in 1981, and our Midwest Regional Distribution Center opened its doors in Iowa City in 2008. We’re now headquartered in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and we’re dedicated to maintaining extensive inventories tailored specifically to customer requirements at each location.• Financial document, accounting reports, personal information of employees and clients https://www.metrowire.net/

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jan 26, 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 2024-04-25

spacebears

According to ransomware.live, Space Bears is a double-extortion ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, distinguished by a professional "corporate" aesthetic on its leak site, leveraging Phobos RaaS infrastructure and targeting small-to-medium organizations in manufacturing, technology, and healthcare across the US and Europe.

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