Portland Public Schools
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group RansomHub 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
Portland Public Schools, based in Portland, Maine, USA, is a comprehensive educational institution providing K-12 education to students. The organization offers a conducive learning environment focusing on student achievement and success. It takes pride in its diverse student body and specialized programs catering to each student’s unique talents and interests. With a dedicated professional staff, it imparts quality education to develop well-rounded individuals for the future.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Mar 5, 2025
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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- Leak Siteransomhubbd_284650abec0dbc822025-01-05 · +60dVerified by operator
Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap
- Pressransomhubbd_e9858b64a519a51a2025-01-05 · +60dCandidate
- Massachusetts State AGbd_1dac121a5c3846d32026-01-30 · +330dVerified
- Maine State AGbd_24c550503f100c932026-01-30 · +330dVerified
- Delaware State AGbd_3436d86a834137e32026-01-30 · +330dVerified
Show 3 more filings ↓Show fewer ↑up to 336d gap
- Indiana State AGbd_7d0298ae14e91fec2026-01-30 · +330dVerified by operator
- Vermont State AGbd_c089e457a397121d2026-01-30 · +330dVerified
- New Hampshire State AGbd_c67522245a0e67142026-02-05 · +336dVerified
Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Jan 5, last Feb 5 (NH) — a 396-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
- 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.
ransomhub
According to ransomware.live, The group emerged in mid-February 2024 and has already listed several organizations as alleged victims of their attacks, resulting from extortion through encryption and data leaks. The announcement of the sale of the new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) by RansomHub was published on one of the Russian-origin forums used by cybercrime to advertise malicious services, known as RAMP4U (or RAMP). A user with the nickname and persona of 'koley' announced the affiliate program on February 2, 2024. In the new RaaS announcement, it was mentioned that the money laundering operation of the paid ransoms is the responsibility of the affiliate. This means that all communication and sending of the decryptor to the victim are done through chat. The split of this RaaS would be 90% of the value for the affiliate and 10% for the developer, who in this case would be the persona of Koley. Furthermore, according to the publication, the ransomware payload is written in Golang language, uses the asymmetric algorithm based on x25519, and encryption algorithms AES256, ChaCha20, and xChaCha20, standing out for its speed. The encryption is obfuscated using AST. The payload would support network propagation and encryption of data both in secure and local mode. According to Koley, the ransomware is designed to operate on platforms such as Windows, Linux, and ESXi, as well as other architectures such as ARM and MIPS. As pointed out by the panel and already highlighted by the intelligence team, Koley stated that the panel uses a .onion domain, allowing the affiliate to organize and manage targets and chat rooms, view access logs, automatically respond when offline, and create private blog pages. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs