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Motivating Graphics

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 8, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Motivating Graphics

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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: 2023-03-08

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Headquarters: 1624 Intermodal Pkwy, Haslet, Texas, 76052, United StatesPhone Number: (817) 491-4788Website: www.motivatingraphics.comRevenue: $14 MillionSince 1976, Motivating Graphics has been comprised of the most accomplished professionals in the print and packaging industry. Our focus on manufacturing premium packaging products coupled with the most technologically advanced equipment, positions MG as a world leader in the packaging industry.In an effort to best accommodate the industry trends, Motivating Graphics has created a true “One-Stop-Shop” solution with an extensive list of capabilities including: design, prototyping, transit testing, manufacturing, repair/ refurbishment and kitting and fulfillment of premium products and packaging.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 8, 2023

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.

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