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Nashua School District

bd_2072f1e4910b73e3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

May 18, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Nashua School District →

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: 2023-05-18

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Nashua, New Hampshire School District is a city of 88,000 residents with much to offer. Most notably, the City has a long tradition of supporting public education, both with resources and volunteers. The School District doesn't need it's 728GB of data containing SSNs, passports, forms with personal data both of employees and students. Confidential document and a crazy amount of databases will be uploaded here as well. Stay in touch.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

May 18, 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

This leak-site claim is one of 7 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 286d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGFeb 28 · first
New Hampshire State AGFeb 28 · first
Indiana State AGFeb 28 · first
Maine State AGFeb 28 · first
Vermont State AGFeb 28 · first
Montana State AGFeb 28 · 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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