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MERS Missouri Goodwill Industries

bd_0f3e1ac7163be4bf · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 27, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for MERS Missouri Goodwill Industries →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: 2023-03-29
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

MERS Industries are known for their will to help people. We suppose they need to improve their consumers data security if they really work to help people. If you are interested to take a closer look at their business, we are ready to share some info with you.You can find much interesting in the files!

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Mar 27, 2023

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 6 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 416d gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGMay 1 · first
Indiana State AG+8d
Maine State AG+15d
Maine State AG+15d
Montana State AG+15d

Pattern: first filing May 1 (IL), last May 16 (MT) — a 15-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 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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