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Housing Authority of the City of Aiken

bd_56e2192c8dfbc36b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jun 23, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: Public SectorDiscovered: 2024-08-03
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 23, 2024

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

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 508d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteJun 23 · first · this page
Nebraska State AG+199d
South Carolina State AG+200d
Massachusetts State AG+200d
New Hampshire State AG+200d
Maryland State AG+508d

Pattern: first filing Jun 23, last Nov 13 (MD) — a 508-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 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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