Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead
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Full breach record for Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
The Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It includes Gateshead, Rowlands Gill, Whickham, Blaydon, Ryton, Felling, Birtley, Pelaw, Dunston and Low Fell. The borough forms part of the Tyneside conurbation, centred on Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2021 census, the borough had a population of 196154. Gateshead Council office is located in 12 Gladstone Ter, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE8 4DY, United Kingdom and has 684 employees.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jan 14, 2025
- Raw hash
- 56b9ae3cace3acc50fee2bcceb028de3aaab73e2b359afb2befb1f8cf583fd1e
Reporting entity
- Name
- medusa
Victim entity
- Name
- Metropolitan Borough of Gatesheadnorm: metropolitan borough of gateshead
- Domain
- gateshead.gov.uk
- Industry
- Government
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· medusa
- Threat actor
- MedusaExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.