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Asheville Eye Associates, PLLC

bd_531afc24c6d789e3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Nov 18, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

11 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Asheville Eye Associates, PLLC

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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: HealthcareDiscovered: 2024-12-29

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Asheville Eye Associates is headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina. The offers services such as, cataract surgery, glaucoma and diabetic vision care, lasik and PRK surgery, full service optical services. The company was founded in 1986.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Nov 18, 2024

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 11 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 207d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 9 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Nov 18, last Jun 13 (NH) — a 207-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 2022-10-20

dragonforce

According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.

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