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Watertown Public Schools

bd_11f83fc8492606d4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 28, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Watertown Public Schools2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Raworld 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: 2024-12-28

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Watertown Public Schools is a school district located in Watertown, Massachusetts. It serves a diverse community, offering education from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. The district is committed to fostering an inclusive environment and emphasizes academic excellence, critical thinking, and social-emotional development. Schools include elementary, middle, and high schools, focusing on preparing students for future success.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 28, 2024

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

  • 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 2023-04-27

raworld

According to ransomware.live, RA Group, also known as RA World, first surfaced in April 2023, utilizing a custom variant of the Babuk ransomware.

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