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McKee-Pownall Equine Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 16, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for McKee-Pownall Equine Services

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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: HealthcareDiscovered: 2025-12-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

McKee-Pownall Equine Services specializes in equine veterinary care, focusing on lameness, sport horse medicine, pre-purchase exams, dentistry, and overall wellness. They provide both in-clinic and on-farm diagnostic services utilizing advanced technology. The company operates multiple locations, including Campbellville, Caledon, and Uxbridge, and employs a team of 17 veterinarians and over 35 support staff. Their Equine Performance Centre is dedicated to assessing and treating performance issues in horses, addressing root causes beyond just lameness.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Dec 16, 2025

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

  • 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 2022-10-20

dragonforce

According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.

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