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CROWN MORTGAGE COMPANY

bd_5ccb6508d2667794 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 24, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for CROWN MORTGAGE COMPANY →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cicada3301 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2024-09-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Crown Mortgage Company, located in Oak Lawn, IL, is a local Chicago mortgage lender serving Chicagoland in Northeast Illinois. Published data coming soon...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 24, 2024

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?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Dec 1 (IL), last Dec 21 (MA) — a 20-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 2024-06-04

cicada3301

According to ransomware.live, Cicada3301 is a ransomware-as-a-service group (tracked as Repellent Scorpius by Palo Alto) that emerged in mid-2024 using Rust-based ransomware targeting Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems, suspected to be a successor of BlackCat/ALPHV and running an affiliate program with 20% commissions.

75 victims claimed globally75 tracked hereFull profile →