DisclosureLens
GLOBALMalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareNitrogenRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Progressive Auto Group

bd_6be3144308dc6396 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 15, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Progressive Auto Group

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Nitrogen 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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2025-07-15

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Sale of new cars of famous brands: Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram. Sale of used cars, budget cars. Service and repair. Registration of loans, leasing.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 15, 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 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteJul 15 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Jul 15, last Jan 27 (NH) — a 195-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 2023-03-29

nitrogen

According to ransomware.live, Nitrogen began as a malware loader in 2023 used to deliver BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware, then evolved into a fully independent ransomware operator by mid-2024, operating its own strain derived from leaked Conti 2 builder code and conducting double-extortion attacks primarily linked to Eastern European infrastructure.

48 victims claimed globally48 tracked hereFull profile →