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Woodward Communications, Inc.

bd_5b9961b06eec7e7f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 3, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 records

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Dispossessor 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-04-19
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Last chance

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 3, 2023

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 8 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 92d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGJan 1 · first
Indiana State AG+94d
Montana State AG+94d
New Hampshire State AG+94d
Massachusetts State AG+98d
Maine State AG+99d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Apr 10 (ME) — a 99-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 2020-02-03

dispossessor

According to ransomware.live, This is not a ransomware group but a data broker

344 victims claimed globally344 tracked hereFull profile →