WESTERN NEW YORK ENERGY, LLC
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Safepay 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
Company description · AI-generated by the aggregator, not the leak post
WNY Energy is an energy company based in Western New York, USA. It operates a 115 million gallon per year ethanol plant that produces clean-burning, renewable fuel and various byproducts including CO2 and wet and dry distillers grain that are used in food and feed products. The company focuses on innovative technology and practices for transforming local corn into efficient, sustainable biofuels.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Apr 24, 2025
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- Leak Siteinc_ransombd_71f1bd5ae13ac4642026-02-03 · +286dVerified by operator
Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap
- Vermont State AGbd_116d91d1a18707382025-06-04 · +41dCandidate
- New Hampshire State AGbd_6366f9e8421253142025-06-04 · +41dVerified
- Massachusetts State AGbd_2ac9edac7dfeaee02025-06-05 · +42dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states
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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.
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safepay
According to ransomware.live, SafePay emerged in September 2024 as a rapidly growing ransomware operation that explicitly disavows the RaaS model and manages all operations internally, claiming over 300 victims worldwide by mid-2025 with a high-profile early attack against UK telematics firm Microlise stealing 1.2 TB of data.