Wits University
bd_1f69a3565796b38f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Wits University →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cl0p 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
Post text · scraped from the leak site
WITS.AC.ZA is the online domain for the University of the Witwatersrand, located in Johannesburg, South Africa. Also known as Wits University, it offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses across a wide range of disciplines, such as commerce, law, management, humanities, health sciences and more. Known for its research-intensive focus, Wits University is one of Africa's top learning institutions.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/id/V0lUUy5BQy5aQUBjbG9w
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 27, 2025
- Raw hash
- 457122346446c20e4dee82b9c9595586d8684477661c81d2ad10418d36ec8246
Reporting entity
- Name
- clopnorm: cl0p
Victim entity
- Name
- Wits Universitynorm: wits university
- Domain
- wits.ac.za
- Industry
- Education
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· cl0p
- Threat actor
- Cl0pExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.