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Alexander City, Alabama

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 26, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Alexander City, Alabama →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Losttrust 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: 2023-09-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Alexander City, known to locals as "Alex City", is the largest city in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States, with a population of 14,843 as of the 2020 census. It has been the largest community in Tallapoosa County since 1910. It is known for Lake Martin with its 750 miles (1,210 km) of wooded shoreline and 44,000 acres (18,000 ha) of water. Lake Martin stands on the Tallapoosa River and offers boating, swimming, fishing, golfing, and camping. Many neighborhoods and luxury homes are located on the lake. The city's economy was traditionally based on the textile industry, but in recent times its economic base has become more diversified as textile jobs have gone to India.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 26, 2023

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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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.

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About this groupFirst seen 2023-09-26

losttrust

According to ransomware.live, LostTrust is a double-extortion ransomware operation that emerged in March 2023 and publicized over 50 victims within days of launching its leak site in September 2023, believed to be a rebrand of the MetaEncryptor gang, primarily targeting manufacturing, professional services, construction, and education sectors with 71% of known victims in the US.

53 victims claimed globally53 tracked hereFull profile →