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Accelerated Academy

bd_49df14634a8a4677 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 10, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Accelerated Academy

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Killsec 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: 2025-09-10

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 10, 2025

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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteSep 10 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 10, last Oct 31 (IN) — a 50-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 2024-02-21

killsec

According to ransomware.live, KillSec originated as a hacktivist group aligned with the Anonymous movement before pivoting to ransomware operations in October 2023, officially launching a RaaS platform in June 2024 with an affiliate-friendly 88% revenue split, primarily targeting healthcare, financial services, and government sectors with over 250 documented victims as of late 2025.

285 victims claimed globally285 tracked hereFull profile →

Accelerated Academy data breach claim (2025) — unverified leak-site allegation · DisclosureLens