Was Franklin Miller Inc. hit by ransomware?

Franklin Miller Inc. was listed by the Dark Project ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Dark Project ransomware group?

Dark Project is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Franklin Miller Inc. breach?

Dark Project published data attributed to Franklin Miller Inc.. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Franklin Miller Inc.

Claimed by Dark Project · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 12, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dark Project
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Oct 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Franklin Miller Inc., founded in 1918, designs and manufactures industrial grinders, crushers, shredders, and wastewater treatment equipment for size reduction and material processing. Based in Livingston, New Jersey, the company serves recycling, waste management, municipal wastewater, and industrial processing sectors globally.

Industry: Industrial Equipment Manufacturing – Size Reduction & Waste Processing
Address: 60 Okner Parkway, Livingston, NJ 07039
Founded: 1918

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a generic recruitment/contact message with no substantive claim of data breach, encryption, exfiltration, or proof. No operational disruption or data inventory is described. This appears to be listing/announcement only.

Dark Project claims to have targeted Franklin Miller Inc. The leak post contains only a generic outreach message with no specific details about the nature of the attack, data exfiltrated, encryption, or operational impact.

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What the group claims

About Franklin Miller Inc. Franklin Miller has been engineering wastewater grinders, crushers, shredders, and screens for municipal and industrial applications since 1918. Their products are designed for reliability and efficiency, catering to industries such as wastewater treatment, food processing, mining, oil and gas, and recycling. The company is committed to providing comprehensive post-sale support, ensuring that their equipment operates at peak performance. Trusted by industry leaders worldwide, Franklin Miller's equipment is precision manufactured in the USA to handle the toughest jobs. As a result of the attack on "Franklin Miller", more than 250 GB of confidential data were stolen. The organization lost control over documents such as drawings and project documentation, confidential agreements, banking and other financial information, as well as employees’ personal data.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Dark Project

Dark Project is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, based on its targeting profile and operational patterns consistent with other profit-driven ransomware actors. As of the time of this writing, no major cybersecurity organizations including CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence firms have published detailed public reporting attributing Dark Project to a specific nation-state, threat actor cluster, or affiliated ransomware ecosystem, and it remains unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed operation. Based on available victim telemetry, the group has claimed at least 18 known victims across a geographically diverse range of countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, the Philippines, and Germany representing its most frequently targeted regions. Its sectoral focus spans manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, hospitality, and education, suggesting an opportunistic targeting methodology rather than a narrowly defined strategic focus, though the inclusion of healthcare and critical infrastructure-adjacent sectors such as transportation warrants continued monitoring. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation at this time, specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption implementation, extortion tactics, and tooling remain unconfirmed by open-source intelligence sources, and analysts should treat any further claims with appropriate caution pending corroborating reporting from authoritative sources. Dark Project should be considered an emerging threat actor under active observation. The group has been linked to 44 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2026; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 12, 2026Franklin Miller Inc. listed by Dark Project on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dark Project

Dark Project has been linked to 44 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,699 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Franklin Miller Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dark Project means Franklin Miller Inc. appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Dark Project's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.