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Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen

bd_34dbad57f7f60d87 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 27, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: Public SectorDiscovered: 2023-03-29

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Helmholtz Zentrum Museum is interested for its top-level scientific achievements in different areas. The most interested ones were open by us for people who are interested in opening new horizons of digital illiterate of this institution.Here you can find the following data: employees information from HR, projects information (science, medical), financial information along with the confidential files.Take a look.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Mar 27, 2023

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 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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