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Epcon Communities

bd_e8b6f9e679d3e190 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Apr 15, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Epcon Communities

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Payoutsking 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: ConstructionDiscovered: 2026-04-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Epcon Communities is a US-based homebuilding and franchise company founded in 1986 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio. It specializes in developing and selling single-story, low-maintenance homes primarily targeting active adults aged 55 and older. Operating in the residential real estate and construction industry, Epcon also franchises its community development model to builders across the United States.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Apr 15, 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.

About this groupFirst seen 2025-04-17

payoutsking

According to ransomware.live, PayoutsKing is an active ransomware group observed through at least 2026 that has claimed attacks against a wide range of industries internationally — including Del Monte Foods and V. FRAAS — across the US, UK, Germany, and Ireland using standard double-extortion tactics.

110 victims claimed globally110 tracked hereFull profile →