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PFC Brakes

bd_ea81098419bdfc09 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 8, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for PFC Brakes

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2023-03-08

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

When it boils down to it, the products we use are a reflection of who we are. You can tell a lot about a person from the products they use. Their character. Their values. Their objectives.At PFC Brakes we have used our mission to build a culture. We have built our company based on a defiant philosophy: NO COMPROMISESTM It’s a mindset, an attitude, a commitment.Set Standards. Outperform. Outlast. Surpass. Pursue Challenges. Exceed Expectations. Break Records. PFC Brakes isn’t just a product, it’s a mentality.Our passion is in our product. We strive to deliver innovative products to the market that outperform the competitors’ and all preceding products. At PFC Brakes we do not strive to meet industry standards, but to surpass them. We strive to continually drive the industry through improvement and innovation.We have built the company with people who believe in, relate to, and adopt this philosophy. A philosophy that we believe our customers share. And we respect our customers, because they don’t just adopt our company philosophy, they live it. We are all too familiar with their character, their values, their objectives, because they are ones without compromise.SITE: https://pfcbrakes.com Address 83 Carbon Metallic HighwayClover, SC 29710United States

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Mar 8, 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

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