meralmanisa
bd_43d358532599a0f2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for meralmanisa →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Nova 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
MER-AL was established in Turkey in 2005, but our experience in the automotive industry started in Germany in 1995. MER-AL started its activities with the production of cast filters, which are specifically used to produce aluminum wheels and components produced in low-pressure-casting. In addition, a significant part of the production department consists of “rim pallets” and “rim pallet covers.” As a result, MER-AL is now one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cast filters and rim pallet sets and a well-known brand in this field in many countries - 1.5 GB of sales data and secret documents, Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jul 19, 2026
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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Compliance clock
Not assessable
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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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
nova
According to ransomware.live, Nova (formerly RALord) is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that encrypts victims’files and uses double-extortion tactics to pressure organizations into paying for decryption and data non-disclosure.