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Elm Grove

bd_02f6b0da631559b6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 17, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Elm Grove

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Medusa 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.

Group activity: Public SectorDiscovered: 2024-05-18

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Elm Grove is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 6,524 at the 2020 census. Elm Grove was named as America's best suburb by Business Insider in October 2014. Elm Grove government is headed by a village president and overseen by a board of trustees, the seven members of which are elected to two-year terms. The total amount of data leakage is 150.6 GB

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 17, 2024

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteMay 17 · first · this page
HHS OCR+198d

Pattern: first filing May 17, last Dec 2 (WI) — a 198-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-01-11

medusa

According to ransomware.live, Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since June 2021 that has targeted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, legal, and manufacturing using double-extortion, with attacks surging 42% between 2023 and 2024 and a formal CISA advisory issued in early 2025.

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