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TaxNetUSA

bd_2f29d555570a2e68 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 11, 2022

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for TaxNetUSA

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Snatch 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2022-01-11

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

TaxNetUSA was founded in 1994 and has since become the leader in property tax information for the state of Texas and beyond. Created by property tax consultants, we serve the real estate and property tax industries with innovative tools and unlimited access to the most

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 11, 2022

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 2021-11-29

snatch

According to ransomware.live, Snatch is a ransomware which infects victims by rebooting the PC into Safe Mode. Most of the existing security protections do not run in Safe Mode so that it the malware can act without expected countermeasures and it can encrypt as many files as it finds. It uses common packers such as UPX to hide its payload.

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