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Forward Air Corp

bd_69daca6e5bc59daa · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 15, 2020

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

14 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Forward Air Corp →3 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Hades 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: Transportation/LogisticsDiscovered: 2020-12-15
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 15, 2020

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 14 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 287d gap

Showing first 10 of 13 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGNov 11 · first
New Hampshire State AG+5d
Leak Site+34d · this page
Illinois State AG+51d
Maine State AG+317d
Montana State AG+317d
Massachusetts State AG+317d
Maine State AG+317d
California State AG+317d
Indiana State AG+317d
New Hampshire State AG+321d

Pattern: first filing Nov 11 (ME), last Sep 28 (NH) — a 321-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 13 — the full spread may be wider.

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 2020-12-15

hades

According to ransomware.live, According to PCrisk, Hades Locker is an updated version of WildFire Locker ransomware that infiltrates systems and encrypts a variety of data types using AES encryption. Hades Locker appends the names of encrypted files with the .~HL[5_random_characters] (first 5 characters of encryption password) extension.

1 victims claimed globally1 tracked hereFull profile →