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Russell Child Development Center

bd_36dce362b0b01a3e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 6, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Russell Child Development Center

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Medusa 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: 2025-05-09

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Russell Child Development Center is a community-based non-profit organization that serves early childhood programs across 19 counties in Southwest Kansas. The center offers a variety of services including early intervention, targeted case management, and support programs for families and child care providers. Russell Child Development Center corporate office is located in 2735 N Jennie Barker Rd, Garden City, Kansas, 67846, United States and has 30 employees. The total amount of data leakage is 215.50 GB

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 6, 2025

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 2023-01-11

medusa

According to ransomware.live, Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since June 2021 that has targeted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, legal, and manufacturing using double-extortion, with attacks surging 42% between 2023 and 2024 and a formal CISA advisory issued in early 2025.

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