Unverified threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
Attribution, victim identity, and counts shown here derive from a threat actor's public extortion-blog claims, aggregated by ransomware.live. They have not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat them as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Unverified claim. Posted to a leak site Sep 14, 2023 by Akira; no regulatory filing has corroborated it yet.
American Steel & Aluminum Co., Inc. was founded in 1967 with 3 employees, a small fabrication shop, and some big dreams for the future. Today they have 70 employees and 70Gb of data that will be uploaded here. There is much project information and financial docs. Employee information is also will be available.
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.