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Decatur Independent School District

bd_3b76ebc8d2f0b3ce · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 5, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Decatur Independent School District →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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: 2023-11-17
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Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Decatur Independent School District is a public school district based in Decatur, Texas, northwest of Fort Worth. In addition to Decatur, the district also serves portions of New Fairview and Rhome...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 5, 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 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteSep 5 · first · this page
Indiana State AG+182d
Massachusetts State AG+183d

Pattern: first filing Sep 5, last Mar 6 (MA) — a 183-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.