Dallas County, Texas
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Full breach record for Dallas County, Texas →2 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Play 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 19, 2023
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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap
- HHS OCRbd_8e8641237987b1dc2023-12-18 · +60dVerified by operator
- Vermont State AGbd_07372230281d08372024-07-10 · +265dCandidate
- Montana State AGbd_246dfc2f7a895ec52024-07-10 · +265dVerified
- Indiana State AGbd_81d5f68b0d2e343b2024-07-10 · +265dVerified
Show 3 more filings ↓Show fewer ↑up to 270d gap
- Maine State AGbd_913288442db457292024-07-10 · +265dVerified by operator
- New Hampshire State AGbd_5699888e7c7a051a2024-07-15 · +270dVerified
- Massachusetts State AGbd_75d364f0d461aed92024-07-15 · +270dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Dec 18 (TX), last Jul 15 (MA) — a 210-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
play
According to ransomware.live, Initially observed in June 2022, the Play ransomware (a.k.a PlayCrypt) operates through double extortion, targeting numerous organizations in Latin America. Its Initial Access method is quite similar to other ransomwares, involving attacks such as Phishing, Exposed Services to the Internet, and Valid Account compromises. On April 19, 2023, the security company Symantec published two new tools developed by the Play group. These tools allow the malicious actor to enumerate and exfiltrate data from the internal network. The post mentions the following: 'Play threat actors use the .NET infostealer to enumerate software and services via WMI, WinRM, Remote Registry, and Remote Service. The malware checks for the existence of security and backup software, as well as remote administration tools and other programs, saving the information in .CSV files that are compressed into a .ZIP file for later manual exfiltration by threat actors.'Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs