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PPC Mechanical Seals

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 9, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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.

Group activity: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2025-07-09

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".

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jul 9, 2025

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.

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About this groupFirst seen 2022-10-20

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.

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