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Pump Engineering Company

โ— Listed in the last 48h
Dark Project ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Manufacturing www.pumpengineering.net
Claimed by Dark Project
Listed on leak site 25 Aug 2026
Reported attack date 25 Aug 2026
Group claims tracked 13
Unverified claim. This entry reproduces a listing published by the Dark Project group on its own extortion site. Attackers routinely exaggerate or fabricate victims. Nothing here confirms that Pump Engineering Company suffered a breach, or what data was actually taken.

About the organisation

About Pump Engineering Company Pump Engineering Company is a full-service distributor and supplier of industrial pumps, parts, and fluid handling systems, serving Southern California since 1946. During the cyberattack, 120,000 files (115 GB) were stolen, including an extensive customer database, insurance documents, confidential financial documents, and a vast number of project drawings.

ShellCodeX evidence assessment

Strong record ยท 100/100. Strong record completeness based on identity, context and retained source evidence. This score does not verify the attacker's allegation.

  • A plausible organisation domain is attached to the claim.
  • The record includes organisation-specific context rather than only a victim name.
  • Country attribution is available for geographic context.
  • Sector classification supports peer-risk comparison.
  • A source listing reference is retained for traceability.

What the listing means

Pump Engineering Company appeared on the Dark Project leak site on 25 August 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 13 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.

Recommended actions

  • Treat any unsolicited message referencing Pump Engineering Company as suspicious โ€” leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
  • If you hold an account on www.pumpengineering.net, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
  • Other Manufacturing organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
  • Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
  • A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach โ€” check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.

Leak-site evidence

Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/UHVtcCBFbmdpbmVlcmluZyBDb21wYW55QERhcmsgUHJvamVjdA==

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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.

Screenshot of the Dark Project leak-site listing for Pump Engineering Company