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Benchmark Civil Engineering Services, Inc.

bd_c8074e98489c4473 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 27, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Benchmark Civil Engineering Services, Inc.

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-08-27

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Benchmark Civil Engineering Services, Inc. is a civil engineering firm based in Allentown, PA, specializing in civil engineering, traffic studies, forensic engineering, and land surveying. The company serves municipalities and clients in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas, providing expert services in traffic and transportation engineering, land development, and construction engineering. With a focus on professionalism and integrity, Benchmark is committed to guiding clients through the design, approval, and construction processes. Their highly trained staff utilizes state-of-the-art technology to ensure project success and compliance with regulations.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 27, 2026

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.