Colonial Surety Company
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Full breach record for Colonial Surety Company →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Medusa 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
Colonial Surety Company (founded in 1930) is a direct seller and writer of surety bonds, fidelity bonds and insurance products for a wide range of professionals and industries. Colonial Surety Company corporate office is located in 123 Tice Blvd Ste 250, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, 07677, United States and has 89 employees. The total amount of data leakage is 143.9 GB
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
May 14, 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 (1) · sorted by filing gap
- Massachusetts State AGbd_b61cab23ae1c47142024-12-19 · +218dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 2 filings
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing May 14, last Dec 19 (MA) — a 218-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.
medusa
According to ransomware.live, Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since June 2021 that has targeted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, legal, and manufacturing using double-extortion, with attacks surging 42% between 2023 and 2024 and a formal CISA advisory issued in early 2025.