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Plasser American Corporation

bd_4f3fd162462926a6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 4, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Plasser American Corporation

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Safepay 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: 2025-02-28

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Plasser American Corporation is an eminent manufacturer of heavy machinery and equipment designed for maintenance of way (MOW) on railroads. They offer an extensive range of advanced machines and systems such as track laying machines, tampers, stabilizers, ballast distributing and profiling machinery, and other track maintenance equipment. The company is known for their high-quality products that significantly increase the life-cycle of rail tracks.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 4, 2025

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteFeb 4 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 4, last Apr 9 (IN) — a 64-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

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 2023-11-10

safepay

According to ransomware.live, SafePay emerged in September 2024 as a rapidly growing ransomware operation that explicitly disavows the RaaS model and manages all operations internally, claiming over 300 victims worldwide by mid-2025 with a high-profile early attack against UK telematics firm Microlise stealing 1.2 TB of data.

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