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Norman S. Wright Climatec

bd_7ad77f2c2661dbdf · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 17, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Norman S. Wright Climatec

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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2023-03-17

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Norman S. Wright Climatec has rapidly grown in recent years to become one of the of premier suppliers of HVAC products and services in the Southern California market. The company’s roots began in 1996 as Airelink Products focusing mainly on air distribution products. Norman S. Wright Mechanical partnered up with Airelink to form Norman S. Wright Airelink and in the process expanded the breath of product lines with a focus on engineering and applied equipment. In 2012 the company evolved to Norman S. Wright of Southern California and continued to increase its engineering and market presence while experiencing rapid growth. With the merging with Climatec Equipment in 2014, Norman S. Wright Climatec was formed, establishing uniform coverage across all of Southern California with one of the most comprehensive offerings of HVAC products in the market.SITE: https://www.nswcla.com Address 3325 East La Palma AvenueAnaheim, CaliforniaUnited States

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Mar 17, 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.

Source ceiling

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