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Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company

bd_1b59250e1e8c3075 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 16, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2022-12-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Virginia Farm Bureau is the largest non-profit agricultural advocacy organization in Virginia. With the support of our members, we help protect farming, agriculture, and the Virginia way of life.Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company was founded to protect the lives and livelihoods of Virginia's farmers. But today, we continue to offer the same reliable coverage to all Virginians.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Dec 16, 2022

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 6 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 426d gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGFeb 15 · first
Massachusetts State AGFeb 15 · first
California State AGFeb 15 · first
Montana State AGFeb 15 · first
Maine State AGFeb 15 · first

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 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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