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Engineering Mechanics

bd_a087068c6259d8f6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 27, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Engineering Mechanics

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lynx 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: 2025-02-28

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus (Emc 2) is an employee owned engineering research and development consulting company focused on materials, structural integrity and reliability of complex systems. We provide high quality engineering services and products that are innovative and responsive to our clients' schedule and budgetary requirements. Emc2 nurtures creativity, continually invests in staff development and new technologies, and collaborates with our clients to assemble the best combination of experts to solve critical problems for the commercial and governmental communities we serve. Since our founding in the last century, Emc2 has always taken pride in our leadership role on various national and international organizations such as ASME, Codes and Standards setting committees. We remain committed to our mission to provide experimental, computational, reliability and analytical solutions to client needs while also supporting societal goals of insuring safe operations ofsystems of all sizes and complexity.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Feb 27, 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

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  • 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 2023-05-22

lynx

According to ransomware.live, Lynx is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in mid-2024 as a rebrand of INC Ransomware (whose source code was sold for $300,000 on the RAMP forum), claiming ~300 victims across manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation with an 80/20 profit split for affiliates.

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