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Modern Automotive

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jul 17, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackbyte 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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2024-07-17
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Founded in 1933, Modern Automotive is a family owned and operated network of dealerships located throughout South Carolina. The Network has grown to include Modern Nissan, Modern Toyota, Modern Infiniti in Winston-Salem, Modern Infiniti in Greensboro, Modern Nissan of Concord, Modern Nissan of Lake Norman, Modern Hyundai of Concord, Modern Toyota of Boone and most recently Modern Subaru of Boone.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 17, 2024

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteJul 17 · first · this page
Massachusetts State AG+168d

Pattern: first filing Jul 17, last Jan 2 (MA) — a 168-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 2021-10-04

blackbyte

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