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Willis Klein

Claimed by Projectrelic · listed 4 years ago

44m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 11, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Projectrelic
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Nov 11, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Willis Klein is a US-based company founded in 1960 that operates multiple divisions supplying decorative plumbing fixtures, door hardware, custom bathroom cabinets and furniture, and commercial hardware. The company serves both residential and commercial markets. Its specific headquarters location and employee count are not publicly confirmed from available sources.

Industry
Decorative Plumbing & Door Hardware Distribution
Founded
1960

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no details on the scale, sensitivity, or type of data exposed are provided in the leak post, and no regulated or sensitive data categories are explicitly mentioned.

The Projectrelic ransomware group claims to have attacked Willis Klein and has published data as part of a disclosed breach. The leak post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor the volume of data affected.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business records
  • Internal company data

What the group claims

Founded in 1960, Willis Klein has multiple divisions providing decorative plumbing, door hardware, custom bathroom cabinets and furniture, commercial hardware.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About Projectrelic

Projectrelic is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim extortion activities. The group has been documented attacking 46 organizations primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, India, Germany, and France, with a focus on technology, manufacturing, construction, and education sectors, though many victims' sector classifications remain undocumented. Limited public intelligence exists regarding Projectrelic's country of origin, organizational structure, or potential affiliations with other cybercriminal groups, and it remains unclear whether they operate as an independent entity or utilize a ransomware-as-a-service model. Similarly, detailed information about their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or use of double extortion tactics has not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has not been associated with any particularly high-profile attacks or record ransom demands that have garnered significant public attention from security researchers or government agencies. Based on available reporting, Projectrelic appears to maintain some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status are limited due to the relatively sparse public documentation surrounding this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 46 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 11, 2022; most recent post November 9, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 11, 2022Willis Klein listed by Projectrelicon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Projectrelic

Projectrelic has been linked to 46 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Projectrelic dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Willis Klein is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Projectrelic means Willis Klein 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 Projectrelic'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.