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Stratford University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 17, 2022

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Stratford University →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Snatch 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: 2022-08-17

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Stratford University offers Associates, Bachelors, and Masters degrees in business administration; computer science and information technology; hospitality and culinary arts; health sciences; and nursing.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 17, 2022

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

This leak-site claim is one of 4 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGJan 26 · first
Indiana State AGJan 26 · first

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 2021-11-29

snatch

According to ransomware.live, Snatch is a ransomware which infects victims by rebooting the PC into Safe Mode. Most of the existing security protections do not run in Safe Mode so that it the malware can act without expected countermeasures and it can encrypt as many files as it finds. It uses common packers such as UPX to hide its payload.

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