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Daubert Chemical Company

Claimed by ORION · listed 2 months ago

$36.6
Ransom
demanded
2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 16, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
ORION
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing/Chemical
Listed on leak site
May 16, 2026
Ransom demanded
$36.6

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Daubert Chemical Company, founded in 1935 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is a specialty chemicals manufacturer focused on surface chemistry solutions including rust preventive coatings, industrial greases, laminating adhesives, sound deadening coatings, and corrosion inhibiting additives. The company serves the steel, automotive, transportation, and general manufacturing industries, and has supplied MIL-SPEC lubricants and greases to the U.S. military for over seven decades. Annual revenue is reported at approximately $36.6 million.

Industry
Specialty Chemical Coatings, Lubricants & Adhesives Manufacturing
Address
Chicago, Illinois, US
Employees
51-200
Founded
1935

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), confirming exfiltration of internal business data including named executive PII (emails, phone numbers, employment history). The company also holds U.S. military supply relationships (MIL-SPEC products), elevating potential sensitivity of any broader data exposure.

The ORION ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Daubert Chemical Company, with the post marked as 'data_published' indicating stolen data has been released. The leak post includes named executive contacts with personal email addresses and phone numbers, suggesting internal corporate data was accessed and disclosed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Executive contact information (names, email addresses, direct phone numbers)
  • Organizational structure and personnel details
  • Financial data (revenue figures)
  • Internal corporate records

What the group claims

Since 1935, Daubert Chemical Company has focused on being the industry's 'silent partner' as a provider and supplier of rust preventive coatings, industrial greases, sound deadening coatings, laminating adhesives, as well as a variety of corrosion inhibiting additives for coating and lubricant formulators. Serves steel, automotive, transportation and general manufacturing industries.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
This link was hidden until the publication conditions were met
daubertchemical.com Since 1935, Daubert Chemical Company has focused on being the industry's "silent partner" as a provider and supplier of rust preventive coatings, industrial greases, sound deadening coatings, laminating adhesives, as well as a variety of corrosion inhibiting additives for coating and lubricant formulators. Daubert takes great pride in its ability to work with its customers in the steel, automotive, transportation and general manufacturing industries to develop optimal solutions for their applications. Thanks to our many years of successful customer relationships, our associates have become highly regarded technical leaders in their respective fields of expertise. Working in tandem with laboratory personnel in Chicago, our sales consultants help customers overcome their challenges through in-depth needs analysis and world-class technical expertise. Revenue $36.6M Matthew S. McGinnis Vice President, Marketing & Distribution [email protected] (708) 563-8358 Matthew McGinnis is a Vice President, Marketing & Distribution at Daubert Chemical based in Chicago, Illinois. Previously, Matthew was a Board M…

Data the group says was taken

  • contact information
  • employee records
  • executive information

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Daubert Chemical Company

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About ORION

Jan13, 2026: We believe the group might be related to Babuk-Bjorka. The group has been linked to 4 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2026; most recent post May 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 16, 2026Daubert Chemical Company listed by ORIONon the group's public leak site
Ransom demanded
$36.6

Other recent disclosures by ORION

ORION has been linked to 4 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/Chemical sector. Geographically, Daubert Chemical Company is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ORION means Daubert Chemical Company 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 ORION'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.