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Universidade Veiga de Almeida (UVA)

bd_5a175285c7d51a48 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Feb 17, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group L Group 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: 2026-08-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Universidade Veiga de Almeida (UVA) is a private higher education institution based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1972, it offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses across various fields including law, health sciences, engineering, and business administration. Operating in the education sector, UVA serves thousands of students through multiple campuses in Rio de Janeiro, providing in-person and distance learning programs.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 17, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

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.