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LEE UNIVERSITY

bd_428da8b3973313dc · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 17, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

15 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for LEE UNIVERSITY →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Medusa 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: 2024-04-17
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Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Lee University is a private, comprehensive university that was founded in 1918 in Cleveland, Tennessee. The number of students enrolled is more than 4,000 people. Lee University corporate office is located in 1120 N Ocoee St, Cleveland, Tennessee, 37311, United States and has 1,223 employees. The total amount of data leakage is 387.49 GB

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 17, 2024

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 15 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 736d gap

Showing first 10 of 14 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 9 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteApr 17 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+342d
Montana State AG+342d
Oregon State AG+342d
Massachusetts State AG+343d
Maine State AG+343d
Washington State AG+343d
Washington State AG+343d
California State AG+343d
South Carolina State AG+348d
Maryland State AG+736d

Pattern: first filing Apr 17, last Apr 23 (MD) — a 736-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 14 — the full spread may be wider.

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 2023-01-11

medusa

According to ransomware.live, Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since June 2021 that has targeted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, legal, and manufacturing using double-extortion, with attacks surging 42% between 2023 and 2024 and a formal CISA advisory issued in early 2025.

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