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Webber International University

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Jan 20, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Webber International University →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ransomhouse 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: 2024-02-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We have been recognized by the Princeton Review as one of “America’s Best Value Colleges” and a “Best in the Southeast” school. Established in 1927 as one of the first business schools for women in the nation, Webber now hosts men and women from over 48 different nations. Established in 1896 as Flora Macdonald College, St. Andrews University (a branch of Webber International University, formerly known as St. Andrews Presbyterian College) joined the Webber International University family during the summer of 2011. A traditional Liberal Arts university, students at St. Andrews major in a wide variety of fields. Each Webber campus is a traditional residential campus and features a wide array of extra-curricular activities. While most of our students are traditional undergraduates who attend classes in person, all day, play their sport all afternoon and retire to our dorms for the evening, we also offer accelerated adult completion, evening MBA, and completely online degrees. We are a results-oriented organization that expects people to meet their goals and understand that this requires hard work. However, we are a collegial, friendly workplace. We have an open-door policy. We know each other. We know our students

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jan 20, 2024

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 6 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

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Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGMay 24 · first
Indiana State AGMay 24 · first
Massachusetts State AGMay 24 · first
Maine State AGMay 24 · first
Vermont State AGMay 24 · 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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  • 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 2021-06-01

ransomhouse

According to ransomware.live, RansomHouse is a double-extortion RaaS operation active since late 2021, attributed to the threat actor "Jolly Scorpius," targeting over 120 organizations across healthcare, finance, transportation, and government, recently upgrading to a multi-layered dual-key encryption architecture.

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