William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
bd_20b586eb6e799bfb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for William S. Hein & Co., Inc. →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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
William S. Hein & Co., Inc. is a leading, family-run publishing company that has been serving the worldwide library community since the 1920s. Originally a renowned publisher of legal publications, the company has since expanded its services into academic, public, government, and corporate libraries, becoming a highly respected multidisciplinary publisher in multiple sectors. In the course of a successful cyber attack on this company, we have a large amount of confidential information at our disposal. More than 500GB. All financial documents, mail correspondence, agreements and contracts that are not subject to disclosure, personal data of employees. All this and much more will be published in case we do not come to an agreement.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 17, 2024
- Raw hash
- f9fd5dfffb3a1ffd1ebeb9729f8f5cdc467b889cc731e19ed7814d1947c6e23c
Reporting entity
- Name
- incransomnorm: inc_ransom
Victim entity
- Name
- William S. Hein & Co., Inc.norm: william s hein
- Domain
- wshein.com
- Industry
- Professional Servicesllm
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· inc_ransom
- Threat actor
- Inc RansomExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.