PPC Mechanical Seals
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Full breach record for PPC Mechanical Seals →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
PPC Mechanical Seals was founded in 1958 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was one of the first mechanical seal companies to provide repair service on all types of seals. PPC then took the knowledge and experience it gained from repairing seals to design, engineer, and manufacture their own proprietary products. Today PPC Mechanical Seals products are operating in some of the most demanding applications throughout the process industry. Customers large and small are utilizing the quality products produced by PPC, and relying upon the excellent service and support provided by our experienced staff. Sealing pumps, mixers, compressors, centrifuges, and other pieces of rotating equipment is routine for PPC. PPC offers a complete range of seal designs including single and double cartridge seals, metal bellows seals, split single and double seals, as well as custom engineered seals. Each is available in a broad range of materials and sizes. PPC places a significant emphasis on "service".
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jul 9, 2025
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
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Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
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dragonforce
According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.