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Universal Plant Services

bd_cd0e7bb1e76c7139 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jun 30, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

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: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2026-06-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

FINAL NOTICE: UNIVERSAL PLANT SERVICES (UPS) We are in possession of 315 GB of your corporate, financial, and operational data. Our analysis confirms that this archive contains highly sensitive information, including: Financial & Accounting: Full audits, tax filings (ADP), payroll, bank transa...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 30, 2026

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 45d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Jun 30, last Aug 14 (TX) — a 45-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

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.

91 victims claimed globally91 tracked hereFull profile →