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Excel Security

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 30, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Excel Security2 incidents on file

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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2025-02-22

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Excel provides consulting, executive protection, guard, electronic systems installation, Command Center Monitoring, Biometric Facial Identification, and investigative services throughout the world. With a long history of dedicated service protecting people and property, Excel’s executive management team consists of highly effective individuals with accomplished backgrounds in all aspects of security. With unparalleled expertise and experience in risk mitigation, crisis management, and counterterrorism, Excel Security provides strategic security solutions for governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world. Today, Excel employs more than 750 people and secures in excess of 30 million square feet of space in the Tri-State region. Excel’s distinct advantage resides in the fact that we are a full-service security provider combining both personnel services and technology. Our Command Center offers a unique advantage from which we can effectively monitor all of the people and facilities we are contracted to protect.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 30, 2024

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 2023-05-22

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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