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Northern Safety Co., Inc.

bd_a4cfc3b86cbf9cbb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 16, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Northern Safety Co., Inc.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Apt73 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: ConstructionDiscovered: 2026-04-27

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Northern Safety Co., Inc. operates as a personal safety equipment distributor company. The Compan...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 16, 2024

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (4)

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Sep 16, last Dec 2 (NH) — a 77-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

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 2023-11-01

apt73

According to ransomware.live, A new ransomware group is said to have emerged in mid-April 2024, under the name 'APT73.' It's worth noting that the group reportedly self-proclaimed as an APT, which stands for 'Advanced Persistent Threat' in the cybersecurity field. According to research, much of the available information about the aforementioned group came from another ransomware group known as LockBit. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs

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