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Nashua School District

bd_2072f1e4910b73e3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 18, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Nashua School District3 incidents on file

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 18, 2023

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteMay 18 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing May 18, last Feb 28 (MT) — a 286-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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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