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Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jul 20, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Nova 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: 2026-07-20

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata offers a wide range of academic programs, including undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, vocational training, and distance education. It serves students, faculty, and the broader community by promoting research, innovation, and cultural activities. The university is committed to sustainability and social responsibility, providing various scholarships and support for international mobility. Additionally, it engages in partnerships and projects that enhance academic and technological transfer, contributing to local and global knowledge - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 20, 2026

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 2025-03-22

nova

According to ransomware.live, Nova (formerly RALord) is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that encrypts victims’files and uses double-extortion tactics to pressure organizations into paying for decryption and data non-disclosure.

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