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Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau

bd_1ef1651dab9e6a27 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jan 16, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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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: EducationDiscovered: 2023-01-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Pure theory - not with us. Internships, laboratory work and a strong focus on application are a matter of course in our degree programmes. We offer a well-structured course of studies that prepares you optimally for your career in a manageable time. Take a look around: More than 50 courses of study in various subject areas are waiting for you!

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 16, 2023

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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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 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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