Epoch Times
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Full breach record for Epoch Times →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Coinbasecartel 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
Epoch Times is an American media company founded in 2000 by Chinese-American Falun Gong practitioners. It operates newspapers, websites, and video content across multiple countries, publishing in numerous languages. The company covers news, politics, health, and culture, but has drawn scrutiny from researchers and platforms for spreading misinformation and promoting far-right narratives. It is headquartered in New York, USA.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Apr 15, 2026
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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- Leak Sitecoinbasecartelbd_73cfefeb1f4524152026-04-15Verified by operator
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
coinbasecartel
According to ransomware.live, CoinbaseCartel specializes in data acquisition through system access and strategic partnerships. It focus exclusively on data exfiltration—our operations never involve system encryption or operational disruption.