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Leadership Strategies

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 17, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Leadership Strategies

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lynx 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2025-02-17

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Take a facilitative approach with Leadership Strategies. We provide expert meeting facilitation and facilitation training to project managers, IT professionals, business analysts, human resources, learning and development, organization alignment and other leaders in business, non-profit and government sectors. We believe facilitation is a powerful tool for helping people reach better decisions, often faster, with much higher levels of buy-in and commitment. The more people in an organization who understand and are skilled at facilitation, the more productive and effective an organization can be. In our course, The Effective Facilitator youll build the skills and confidence to conduct successful meetings every time by learning the approach and techniques our own professional facilitators use. The Drivers Model is LSIs proven methodology for helping an organization identify its business problems and construct an effective strategic plan of action for solving them.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 17, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

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.

Source ceiling

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

About this groupFirst seen 2023-05-22

lynx

According to ransomware.live, Lynx is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in mid-2024 as a rebrand of INC Ransomware (whose source code was sold for $300,000 on the RAMP forum), claiming ~300 victims across manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation with an 80/20 profit split for affiliates.

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