Smyth Companies, LLC
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Full breach record for Smyth Companies, LLC →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Smyth Companies, LLC has failed to protect its infrastructure. We have successfully exfiltrated high-value corporate data, and the window for private negotiation is now closed. THE TERMS: You have 24 HOURS to finalize the settlement. If the deadline expires: FULL DISCLOSURE: 1000 GB of interna...
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Feb 19, 2025
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
Not assessable
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.
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.
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.