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Monmouth University

bd_2f9fdb38c91c7c57 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 3, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

12 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Monmouth University

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Pear 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: EducationDiscovered: 2026-03-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 3, 2026

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 12 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filingsup to 171d gap

Showing first 10 of 11 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Mar 3, last Aug 21 (TX) — a 171-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 11 — the full spread may be wider.

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 2023-08-18

pear

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