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JPS Consulting Engineers

bd_8371a5e0e0c9e9a0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Feb 4, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for JPS Consulting Engineers

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Beast 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: ConstructionClaimed data size: 200GBDiscovered: 2025-07-29

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

JPS Consulting Engineers is a group of dynamic site, civil and structural engineers based out of Indianapolis, Indiana. We have a combined 200+ years of design and consulting experience among us. We serve as a one-stop shop for all of your site, civil and structural needs-in Indiana, the Midwest and anywhere you do business. JPS is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). Our firm is distinguished by the ability to communicate complex technical issues in a way that our clients understand. Our employees are passionate about working in collaborative environments which help our healthcare, higher education, advanced technology, construction, and existing building clients to achieve outstanding project results. We believe in a holistic approach to structural design, construction means and methods, and risk consulting. We understand that our clients have competing demands for their projects.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Feb 4, 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 2023-12-19

beast

According to ransomware.live, Beast is a Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) product which provides functionality such as SMB scanning, file encryption, service and process starting and stopping, and geographic identification to avoid encryption in CIS countries.

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