Action COACH
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Full breach record for Action COACH →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Akira on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
ActionCOACH has empowered thousands of businesses and t heir leaders across the globe, spanning every conceivab le industry. They specialize in helping business owners achieve greater efficiency, build high-performing team s, and increase profitability. There is a lot of personal documents with SSNs, health documents, info about their relatives, driver license s cans, NDAs etc. We have made the process of downloading company data as simple as possible for our users. All you need is any torrent client (like Vuze, Utorrent, qBittorrent or Tra nsmission to use magnet links). You will find the torre nt file above. 1. Open uTorrent, or any another torrent client. 2. Add torrent file or paste the magnet URL to upload t he data safely. 3. Archives password: fk2vmf6vm3l MAGNET URL: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2D9667D4DF05DAE7AA56F40 96D730840130FA101&dn=actioncoach.com&tr=udp://tracker.o penbittorrent.com:80/announce&tr=udp://tracker.opentrac kr.org:1337/announce&tr=wss://wstracker.online
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 10, 2023
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
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Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
akira
According to ransomware.live, The Akira ransomware group is said to have emerged in March 2023, and there's much speculation about its ties to the former CONTI ransomware group. It's worth noting that with the end of CONTI's operation, several affiliates migrated to independent campaigns such as Royal, BlackBasta, and others. According to some reports, Akira affiliates also work with other ransomware operations, such as Snatch and BlackByte, as an open directory of tools used by an Akira operator was identified, which also had connections to the Snatch ransomware. The first version of the Akira ransomware was written in C++ and appended files with the '.akira' extension, creating a ransom note named 'akira_readme.txt,' partially based on the Conti V2 source code. However, on June 29, 2023, a decryptor for this version was reportedly released by Avast. Subsequently, a version was released that fixed the decryption flaw on July 2, 2023. Since then, the new version is said to be written in Rust, this time called 'megazord.exe,' and it changes the extension to '.powerranges' for encrypted files. Most of Akira's initial access vectors use brute-force attempts on Cisco VPN devices (which use single-factor authentication only). Additionally, exploitation of CVEs: CVE-2019-6693 and CVE-2022-40684 for initial access has been identified. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs