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Our Sunday Visitor

bd_40ad612b49bf4f37 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Apr 29, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Our Sunday Visitor2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Karakurt 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2023-04-29

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Our Sunday Visitor is a Catholic publisher serving millions of Catholics globally through its publishing, offertory, and communication services. They've lost 130GB of their data that includes full accounting documentation, many HR docs with personal data of employees, financial contracts and invoices, their marketing information and many other document as well. Coming soon.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 29, 2023

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 146d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Apr 29, last Sep 22 (VT) — a 146-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 2022-12-11

karakurt

According to ransomware.live, Karakurt is a pure data-extortion group (no encryption) assessed with high confidence to be the extortion arm of the Conti ransomware group, active from 2021, that steals data and threatens to auction or publish it unless ransoms ranging from $25,000 to $13 million are paid.

74 victims claimed globally74 tracked hereFull profile →