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Sterling Industries

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

May 27, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Sterling Industries →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Chaos 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: 2026-05-27
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Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

STERLING INDUSTRIES: FINAL NOTICE BEFORE FULL RELEASE STATUS: PENDING FINAL PUBLICATION ENTITY: Sterling Industries (sterlingindustries.com) LEAK SIZE: ~503 GB ATTENTION MANAGEMENT We are currently in the final stages of preparing your data for public release. We have provided you with ample time...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 27, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

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 2025-02-19

chaos

According to ransomware.live, Chaos is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in early 2025, likely formed by former BlackSuit/Royal members, offering cross-platform ransomware for Windows, Linux, ESXi, and NAS to affiliates recruited on the RAMP dark web forum, excluding CIS/BRICS countries and hospitals from targeting.

91 victims claimed globally91 tracked hereFull profile →