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Ellison-Mills Contracting

bd_bbd53ad55c991bd4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Sep 1, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Chaos 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: ConstructionClaimed data size: 0 GBDiscovered: 2025-09-01

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Ellison-Mills Contracting is a family-oriented company specializing in wet utility and roadway infrastructure in Southern Arizona. They are committed to cultivating strong relationships with clients and team members while delivering quality construction management for various project types. With extensive experience in multimillion-dollar projects, the company prides itself on its ability to complete work on time and under budget across several contracting methods.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 1, 2025

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 2025-02-19

chaos

According to ransomware.live, Chaos is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in early 2025, likely formed by former BlackSuit/Royal members, offering cross-platform ransomware for Windows, Linux, ESXi, and NAS to affiliates recruited on the RAMP dark web forum, excluding CIS/BRICS countries and hospitals from targeting.

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