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Heritage South Credit Union

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 14, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Heritage South Credit Union →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Embargo 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2025-02-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Heritage South Credit Union was originally chartered in 1937 as the Avondale Employees Federal Credit Union. After many years and a couple of name changes, Heritage South Credit Union continues to have a strong presence in Sylacauga, Childersburg, Moody, and Alexander City as a fixture in the community and as a stable and secure financial institution. Heritage South Credit Union has grown to over $160 million in assets and over 14,000+ members. - 300 GB data including: - debit card numbers - account numbers - SSN - address - phone - email - DOB - current balances - debts - loans - insurance Here's data for CEO: ...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Feb 14, 2025

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 3 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGMar 21 · first
Massachusetts State AGMar 21 · first

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

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  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-17

embargo

According to ransomware.live, Embargo is a Rust-based ransomware-as-a-service group that emerged in April 2024, primarily targeting US healthcare, manufacturing, and business services organizations using double extortion, assessed as a potential successor to BlackCat/ALPHV with over $34 million in ransom proceeds.

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