Williams County Abstract Company
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Full breach record for Williams County Abstract Company →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Williams County Abstract Company (founded 1907) provides services to help you buy or sell residential and commercial property, and also real estate closing, escrow and settlement services and title insurance. Williams County Abstract corporate office is located in 123 E Broadway, Williston, North Dakota, 58801, United States and has 13 employees. The total amount of data leakage is 51.11 GB.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Apr 9, 2024
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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- Leak Sitemedusabd_a3e3f432ef3f1c452024-03-29 · +11dVerified by operator
Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_f57d98563e3b07542024-07-16 · +97dVerified by operator
- Maine State AGbd_ff7330a2f15cb7942024-07-26 · +107dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Jul 16 (IN), last Jul 26 (ME) — a 10-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
Source ceiling
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- 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.
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.