Public Relations Society of America
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Full breach record for Public Relations Society of America →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sinobi 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Founded in 1947, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) is a nationwide non-profit trade association serving the communications community and public relations professionals. It is headquartered in New York City, New York.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 8, 2025
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
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
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_4451bdb7e5fdc7132026-03-04 · +146dCandidate
- Massachusetts State AGbd_729f156b4364cef82026-03-04 · +146dVerified
- Nebraska State AGbd_d1ff55a6f4b0304d2026-03-04 · +146dVerified
- Maine State AGbd_d6acf41fefd03a702026-03-04 · +146dVerified
Show 1 more filing ↓Show fewer ↑up to 151d gap
- New Hampshire State AGbd_923119778c9524412026-03-09 · +151dVerified
Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Oct 8, last Mar 9 (NH) — a 151-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
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.
sinobi
According to ransomware.live, Sinobi is a private vetted-affiliate RaaS group that emerged in mid-2025, believed to be a rebrand of the Lynx/INC ransomware lineage, claiming 176 victims by end of 2025 through double-extortion attacks primarily against mid-market US organizations via compromised SonicWall VPN credentials.