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MW Components

bd_7c646ecd17cfb9c4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 18, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for MW Components →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: 2023-04-24
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

MW Components is focused on accelerating the entire process of delivering custom, stock, and standard parts to virtually any volume and against demanding deadlines. This time MW Components hasn't coped with deadlines and soon you will be able to download their data and see how they accelerate their their processes in their documents. Files of 274GB size that we obtained contain SSNs, passport data, detailed accounting and finance documents. Stay online!

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 18, 2023

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Not assessable

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filings ↓up to 134d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGJan 1 · first
Leak Site+107d · this page
Indiana State AG+208d
California State AG+208d
Massachusetts State AG+208d
New Hampshire State AG+212d
Vermont State AG+239d
Maine State AG+240d
California State AG+240d
New Hampshire State AG+241d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Aug 30 (NH) — a 241-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 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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