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Haywood County School District

bd_11f66462a4595724 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 24, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Haywood County School District →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Suncrypt 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: 2020-08-24
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 24, 2020

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

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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 SiteAug 24 · first · this page
Montana State AG+134d

Pattern: first filing Aug 24, last Jan 5 (MT) — a 134-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 2020-08-24

suncrypt

According to ransomware.live, SunCrypt is a RaaS operation first observed in October 2019, notable for pioneering triple extortion (encryption, data publication threats, and DDoS attacks on non-paying victims), operating a closed small affiliate program and partnering with TrickBot for initial access.

32 victims claimed globally32 tracked hereFull profile →