ETC Companies
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Full breach record for ETC Companies →2 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackshrantac 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
"ETC Companies" is an American consulting company that specializes in providing solutions for employee benefits, HR technology, payroll, and risk management. The company aims to deliver customized programs, strategic planning, and relevant insights to help businesses in different fields efficiently manage their staff and employee services. It offers services like compliance reporting, compensation analysis, among others.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 19, 2025
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.
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.
blackshrantac
According to ransomware.live, BlackShrantac is a ransomware group that emerged in late 2025, targeting organizations in manufacturing, financial services, technology, and the public sector globally, employing double-extortion combined with living-off-the-land techniques to weaponize legitimate tools and disable defenses before encrypting files.