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Center for Human Capital Innovation (centerforhci.org)

bd_322b677fb96484b4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 5, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Center for Human Capital Innovation (centerforhci.org)

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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: 2024-07-05

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Center for Human Capital Innovation (CHCI) advises government organizations on "best practices" and "next practices" in strategic human capital management. Our overall mission is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of federal government operations through systematic improvements in Human Capital Management practices. CHCI serves as a trusted advisor, think-tank, thought leader, educator, analyst and coach dedicated to advancing the science of talent management for organizations in the government sector. The aim of CHCI is to improve the Return on People throughout government. Our mission is to provide government leaders with valuable assessment tools, deployment advice, sound Human Capital Management analyses, as well as innovative insight related to integrated talent strategy, acquisition, development, engagement, management and evaluation. Years of research and collaboration has equipped CHCI with an extensive database of substantiated methods and ideas from a field of the brightest thought leaders in talent management. Those insights, coupled with our deep and comprehensive understanding of strategic human capital management, result in measurable, real-world strategies that help client organizations attract and retain high-performing people, build a diverse and inclusive workplace, and leverage individual and team performance throughout the enterprise.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 5, 2024

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

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  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
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  • materiality
  • notification
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.