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Marlin Mechanical Inc.

listed as marlinhvac.com · Claimed by Safepay · listed 7 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 15, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Safepay
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Marlin Mechanical Inc. is a commercial HVAC contractor founded in 1989 by Michael and Richard Pellino, operating for 35 years in the New York metropolitan area. The company provides heating, air conditioning, and mechanical construction services to commercial high-rise, healthcare, hospitality, education, and retail clients throughout NYC, surrounding counties, and a 60-mile radius into New Jersey, with an approved vendor status among major GCs and hospitals.

Industry
Commercial HVAC Contracting & Mechanical Services
Address
363 7th Ave, New York, NY (inferred from contact info in site footer)
Founded
1989

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are described in the leak post. No specific data types are identified as exfiltrated. The post is a listing announcement only, with no operational disruption stated.

The SafePay group claims to have exfiltrated data from Marlin Mechanical Inc. The leak post provides no specific details about the scope of data compromised or operational impact.

low

What the group claims

Founded in 1989 by Michael and Richard Pellino, the company has developed more than three decades of experience in mechanical …

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 779 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 15, 2026marlinhvac.com listed by safepay on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 779 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 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, marlinhvac.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means marlinhvac.com 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 safepay'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.