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MSC Group

bd_814ab4de1df7cdb4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

May 18, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for MSC Group

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lamashtu 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: Transportation/LogisticsDiscovered: 2026-05-18

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

MSC Group is a global metals trading and recycling corporation that purchases, processes, and supplies recycled ferrous and non‐ferrous materials to manufacturers and foundries.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 18, 2026

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 2026-04-11

lamashtu

According to ransomware.live, Lamashtu is an extortion group that first appeared in April 2026, claiming attacks against organizations in France, Romania, and Thailand across energy, pharmaceutical, and film sectors; it has not yet been confirmed as operating actual file-encrypting ransomware rather than pure data-theft extortion.

34 victims claimed globally34 tracked hereFull profile →