Houston Housing Authority
bd_6c8377e34b865e35 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Houston Housing Authority →2 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Meow 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 31, 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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_23d74591256b0d802025-03-27 · +146dCandidate
- Nebraska State AGbd_40d397942297549f2025-03-27 · +146dCandidate
- Massachusetts State AGbd_e42682b0e419b6572025-03-27 · +146dVerified
Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Oct 31, last Mar 27 (MA) — a 146-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
meow
According to ransomware.live, Meow emerged in 2022 (resurfacing aggressively in 2024), initially operating as a RaaS using the Conti v2 codebase before transitioning to a data-extortion-only model — selling stolen data rather than encrypting files — with a heavy focus on US healthcare and medical research organizations.