Simmers Crane & Engineering
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Full breach record for Simmers Crane & Engineering →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lynx 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
Simmers Crane Design & Services Company was founded in 1958 by Charles Simmers, former Chief Engineer with Koppers Co. and Vice President of Engineering with Morgan Engineering Company. Mr. Simmers recognized the need for a specialty engineering group to serve the steel industry, and was able to staff his group with engineering personnel from major crane and mill builders. Initially providing engineering services only, Simmers became a Division of Pollock Research and Design, Inc. in 1966 and has expanded its' capabilities to include complete engineering services, field services, and materials for cranes, weight handling, mill, special, and category "A" nuclear equipment. Providing services both domestically and internationally, Simmers, along with its' sister division Reading Crane & Engineering Co., is an OEM supplier. Simmers is accredited by the U.S. Department of Labor to inspect, test, and certify Maritime shore based material handling devices such as cranes, derricks, spouts
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 24, 2025
- Raw hash
- ada79e079139342bc9620b698d9f804a306fc711b9acece4315e3c24f94624a0
Reporting entity
- Name
- lynx
Victim entity
- Name
- Simmers Crane & Engineeringnorm: simmers crane engineering
- Domain
- simmerscrane.com
- Industry
- Manufacturingllm
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· lynx
- Threat actor
- LynxExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.