Preferred
bd_a635208c380f5c63 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Preferred →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen 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
preferredtool.com Preferred Tool & Die is a precision manufacturing company based in Shelton, Connecticut, specializing in custom metal and plastic injection molds as well as complex stamped components. The company serves demanding sectors, including the medical, electrical, consumer products, and automotive industries. Holding ISO and FDA registrations, they are committed to delivering high-quality, reliable, and innovative manufacturing solutions tailored to exact client specifications
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/id/UHJlZmVycmVkQHRoZWdlbnRsZW1lbg==
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jul 31, 2026
- Raw hash
- 6caa3452d0d0aa9e2d89ebf495ff025fad72d2de24791d13cf786f569c507f5e
Reporting entity
- Name
- thegentlemen
Victim entity
- Name
- Preferrednorm: preferred
- Domain
- preferredtool.com
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· thegentlemen
- Threat actor
- ThegentlemenExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.