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GLOBALMalwareManufacturingManufacturingRansomwareDark ProjectRansom DemandedActor NamedData Leak ThreatenedData PublishedHigh

Design-Aire Engineering, INC

bd_42105fbbd899b5e6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 24, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Design-Aire Engineering, 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: 2026-08-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

About Design-Aire Engineering, INC Design-Aire Engineering specializes in mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and energy engineering services. They focus on providing innovative and sustainable solutions for their clients. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including those in the public and private sectors. With a commitment to green engineering practices, they aim to enhance energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Design-Aire Engineering, INC has suffered a cyberattack on its service systems, resulting in the theft of approximately 377GB of sensitive data. The breached information includes employees' personal data and detailed architectural plans of clients' buildings.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 24, 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.