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Gaston College

bd_398ba9c747a25eb2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 9, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Gaston College →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Nokoyawa 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: 2023-05-23
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Gaston College is a public community college in Dallas, North Carolina. Serving Gaston County and Lincoln County, Gaston College enrolls over 5,000 students each term in curriculum programs and about 16,000 students in continuing education programs. It is part of the North Carolina...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 9, 2023

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

Not assessable

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 173d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteMar 9 · first · this page
Indiana State AG+169d
Vermont State AG+169d
Montana State AG+172d
South Carolina State AG+173d
Massachusetts State AG+173d
New Hampshire State AG+173d
Maine State AG+173d

Pattern: first filing Mar 9, last Aug 29 (ME) — a 173-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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

  • 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 2022-12-09

nokoyawa

According to ransomware.live, Nokoyawa is a double-extortion ransomware group that launched a RaaS program in 2022 (operated by threat actor "farnetwork"), primarily targeting businesses in South America across healthcare, financial services, government, and manufacturing, gaining significant attention in 2023 for exploiting a Windows CLFS zero-day (CVE-2023-28252).

36 victims claimed globally36 tracked hereFull profile →