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Chattanooga State Community

bd_16f2d0629c5d0494 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 18, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Chattanooga State Community

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Nokoyawa 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: 2023-05-23

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Chattanooga State Community College is a public community college in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The college is a member of the Tennessee Board of Regents System and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).Chattanooga State offers a variety of programs...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 18, 2023

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteMay 18 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing May 18, last Jun 30 (ME) — a 42-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 2022-12-09

nokoyawa

According to ransomware.live, Nokoyawa is a double-extortion ransomware group that launched a RaaS program in 2022 (operated by threat actor "farnetwork"), primarily targeting businesses in South America across healthcare, financial services, government, and manufacturing, gaining significant attention in 2023 for exploiting a Windows CLFS zero-day (CVE-2023-28252).

36 victims claimed globally36 tracked hereFull profile →