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Pappytech

bd_a2b6beb7221309d2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 24, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Pappytech

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Vect 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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2026-02-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Status: STATUS: NEGOTIATING | Sector: retail | ├─ Main accounting software data directories (multiple financial years) ├─ Company-wise accounting datasets (separate numeric company instances) ├─ Archived accounting backups (ZIP and RAR files, mu... DATA SIZE: 22.82 GB | Deadline: 18d 7h

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 24, 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 2025-10-05

vect

According to ransomware.live, VECT is a RaaS group that launched its affiliate program in December 2025 with a five-tier revenue-sharing model and a formal partnership with BreachForums; its VECT 2.0 payload contains a critical encryption flaw that irreversibly destroys files larger than 128 KB rather than encrypting them.

25 victims claimed globally25 tracked hereFull profile →