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TOWNE MORTGAGE COMPANY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jul 30, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for TOWNE MORTGAGE COMPANY →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackbyte 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2025-07-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Founded in 1982, The Towne Mortgage Family of Companies has more than 40 years of experience in the mortgage industry. Passionate about our customers, our company and the communities we serve, Towne is actively involved with many non-profit organizations. Our community outreach initiatives are not just a side-effect of our business; they are the heart of it. We are, first and foremost, a local lender. Our commitment extends beyond outreach to the products we offer, including a program specifically designed to aid in the rehabilitation of struggling neighborhoods. So while we have experienced aggressive growth in the past 3 years, we continue to focus on areas often underserved by large, corporate lenders.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jul 30, 2025

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 4 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Nov 13 (MA), last Feb 6 (CA) — a 85-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 2021-10-04

blackbyte

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