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Central Carolina Insurance Agency

bd_2bcbfaea9f93c203 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 9, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Central Carolina Insurance Agency →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BianLian 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2024-04-09

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Central Carolina Insurance Agency is an independent insurance firm that began operations in Rowan County in 1931, and the organization grew in the 1980’s with an expansion into Mooresville. In 2017 we added R3; Risk, Reduction Resources to our firm to diversify Central Carolina’s tenure and clout in the insurance industry and to promote a more holistic approach to risk management.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 9, 2024

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 6 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 237d gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Vermont State AGNov 21 · first
Massachusetts State AGNov 21 · first
Indiana State AGNov 21 · first
Maine State AGNov 21 · first

Pattern: first filing Nov 21 (VT), last Dec 3 (NH) — a 12-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 2022-07-14

bianlian

According to ransomware.live, BianLian ransomware operations began in late 2021. The group practices multi-pronged extortion, demanding payment for a decryptor, as well as the non-release of stolen data. The ransomware group hosts a public, TOR-based, blog to post victim identities and stolen data. Somewhat unique to BianLian at the time of their launch was their inclusion of an I2P mirror for their blog.

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