Paterson & Cooke
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Full breach record for Paterson & Cooke →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Paterson & Cooke was founded as an engineering consultancy in 1991 by Angus Paterson and Robert Cooke specialising in slurry pipeline and mine backfilling consulting services to the South African mining industry. Through extensive early work with major South African mining companies, they gained invaluable knowledge and experience designing innovative and effective solutions for the challenges presented when backfilling some of the country’s deepest gold mines. More than three decades later, the founding vision of providing the most sought-after specialist consulting engineering services to the mining industry holds true, and our expertise has grown to include slurry pipeline systems, tailings and mine waste technology, mine backfill, offshore engineering, and mineral processing. Our reputation as global leaders in this industry is directly attributed to the work of our diverse team of world class engineers and specialists operating out of offices in Australia, Canada, Chile, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and USA. Six of these offices have comprehensive laboratory testing facilities.SITE: www.patersoncooke.com Address : 221 Corporate Circle, Suite D, Golden, CO 80401-5637, USAALL DATA SIZE: ~450gb+ 1. Corporate data 2. Drawings 3. Users personal data 4. Home users folders and docs & etc...
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Mar 28, 2024
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
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Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
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