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Metal7

bd_4fe49b23c4297d01 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 26, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Metal7

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackout 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: 2024-02-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

This time we dug into the network of metal7.com, a company that manufactu...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 26, 2024

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.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-02-26

blackout

According to ransomware.live, Blackout is a ransomware group that first appeared in early 2024, initially claiming attacks against healthcare entities in Canada, France, and Germany before expanding to telecommunications, mining, and manufacturing sectors, operating a double-extortion model with a data leak site.

12 victims claimed globally12 tracked hereFull profile →