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Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Nov 8, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Kazu 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: Public SectorClaimed data size: 466.2 GBDiscovered: 2025-11-11

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The official online portal of the Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia, a constitutional and autonomous institution responsible for promoting, protecting, and defending human rights across the country. It serves as a public platform where citizens can access information about their rights, file complaints, seek legal guidance, and learn about the institution’s oversight and advocacy efforts. The Defensoría operates independently from other branches of government and plays a key role in ensuring that state entities respect and uphold fundamental rights, especially for vulnerable populations

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 8, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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 2025-11-06

kazu

According to ransomware.live, Kazu is an emerging ransomware group active since September 2025 that employs double-extortion tactics, targeting government, healthcare, and financial organizations primarily in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, with notable claimed breaches including Dubai's Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation with 1.94 TB exfiltrated.

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