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PESSI

bd_e5ca30d53bbf9b6b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jun 3, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for PESSI

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Darkrace 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2023-06-03

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

PESSI is committed to provide services and benefits to workers and their dependents in close partnership with the employers. By bringing transparency and ensuring fairness to its business processes, PESSI's noble task of providing comprehensive medical coverage and a number of cash benefits to its secured clientele comprising of downtrodden workers and their dependents including parents is expected to significantly enhance the coverage and scope of its services. PESSI is indeed a partner in enhancing productivity of businesses by providing security and peace of mind to workers. May Allah give us strength to standby our commitments.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 3, 2023

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 2023-05-30

darkrace

According to ransomware.live, DarkRace is a ransomware variant that surfaced in mid-2023 sharing strong code similarities with LockBit, employing double-extortion via a dark web leak site, but remained a minor player with fewer than 15 posted victims in its first half-year.

10 victims claimed globally10 tracked hereFull profile →