Alton Steel
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Full breach record for Alton Steel →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lynx 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
Alton Steel Inc. is an American steel manufacturing company founded in 2003 and based in Alton, Illinois. The company specializes in producing high-quality Special Bar Quality (SBQ) steel products, including round bars, round-cornered squares, and steel coils. Alton Steel's manufacturing facilities feature a 200-ton electric arc furnace and a 14-inch rolling mill, allowing an annual steel melting capacity of up to 750,000 tons and a rolling capacity of up to 400,000 tons of steel bars. In 2019, the company transitioned to employee ownership through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Alton Steel actively implements sustainable technologies, including a partnership with Qcells North America to install a 6.5 MW solar panel array at their facility, making it the second steel mill in the U.S. to utilize on-site solar energy.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Mar 30, 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
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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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lynx
According to ransomware.live, Lynx is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in mid-2024 as a rebrand of INC Ransomware (whose source code was sold for $300,000 on the RAMP forum), claiming ~300 victims across manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation with an 80/20 profit split for affiliates.