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HighWire Press
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Full breach record for HighWire Press →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Hellcat 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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2025-04-05
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Jiraware <<3 !! We hold sensitive data from HighWire Press, a leading platform serving scholarly publishers. The data includes internal documents, communications, and materials that could impact both HighWire and its publishing partners.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet. If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice, or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens will merge it into an incident and link it here.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 18, 2025
- Raw hash
- c6e0a5756f1c93053a38693c6c5cc6f43ac7785c872c4c5118d7a5a47652d191
Reporting entity
- Name
- hellcat
Victim entity
- Name
- HighWire Pressnorm: highwire press
- Domain
- highwirepress.com
- Industry
- Technology
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· hellcat
- Threat actor
- HellcatExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.