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Ampersand

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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2023-10-16

View aggregator listing on ransomware.live

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Ampersand is a data-driven TV advertising sales and technology company. We reach 116 million multiscreen households, providing viewership insights and planning on 42 million households, in 200+ DMAs, across more than 165+ networks and in all dayparts. Meet Ampersand. The vision for NCC Media was born by a couple, Linda and Bob Williams, in Boston in 1981. Originally called New England Cable Rep, these two entrepreneurs ambitiously set out to unify cable inventory so that an advertiser could have a simpler way to buy cable programming in the local TV market.SITE: www.ampersand.tv Address 151 W 42nd St Fl 11 New York City, New York 10036, United States

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet. If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice, or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens will merge it into an incident and link it here.

Source provenance

Source URL: https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 28, 2023
Raw hash: 7f67561e1fc7a0df7aa64a593e1ace0ac78dc1184cf5c1cbb1bafd1a5e6b6db6

Reporting entity

Name: blackbasta
norm: black_basta

Victim entity

Name: Ampersand
norm: ampersand
Domain: ampersand.tv
Industry: Technologyllm

What this source establishes

Source ceiling: A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
Attack vector: Ransomware· black_basta
Threat actor: Black BastaExternalFinancial

Compliance

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.