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Hartwick College

bd_0d312d19e0cdf60e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 17, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 records

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Chort 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: EducationDiscovered: 2024-11-17

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Status: Wait for Decision - details: Databases + Files of This Company

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 17, 2024

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 7 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 145d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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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 2024-11-17

chort

According to ransomware.live, Chort is a double-extortion ransomware group (whose name means "Devil" in Russian) that emerged in October 2024, primarily targeting US education and government sectors, with notable victims including the City of Sheboygan and Kuwait's Ministry of Finance.

7 victims claimed globally7 tracked hereFull profile →