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Life University

bd_560343fb2a7546af · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 22, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Life University2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Metaencryptor 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: 2024-08-22
Listing address (not linked): https://metacrptmytukkj7ajwjovdpjqzd7esg5v3sg344uzhigagpezcqlpyd.onion/0AFC:b5eb8e07ab1bff2d11d97bb3ce75947d/0AFC:731346b414a49e94e7a60fbdc27098558c556ab3d17243d7259da3ffe194cbfe/0AFC:a302abbf7487c833b65f2d5ee15d28cd3b528276cdd92f748989b4d9a0a61b843ba391988885e49281638aee7d90b6cfView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Life University is a private university Leading Chiropractic and Holistic Health University located in Marietta, Georgia, USA.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 22, 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 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteAug 22 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 22, last Apr 2 (VT) — a 222-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 2023-08-16

metaencryptor

According to ransomware.live, MetaEncryptor is a ransomware group first observed in mid-2023, targeting medium-to-large enterprises in legal, technology, logistics, manufacturing, and finance sectors primarily in the UK, Europe, and Southeast Asia, using AES-256/RSA-2048 encryption and double extortion.

47 victims claimed globally47 tracked hereFull profile →