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Lewis & Clark College

bd_721b1595af25beec · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 31, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Lewis & Clark College4 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Vicesociety 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: EducationDiscovered: 2023-03-31

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Lewis & Clark is a private institution with a public conscience, a residential campus with global reach. Students and faculty throughout all three of Lewis & Clark's schools - the undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and the School of Law - pursue new ways of knowing by combining classic liberal learning with pioneering collaboration.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 31, 2023

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filingsup to 1049d gap

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Mar 31, last Feb 12 (ID) — a 1049-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 2021-05-31

vicesociety

According to ransomware.live, Vice Society ransomware appends the .v-society extension when encrypting Linux machines. Running a leak site on the darkweb, Possible relations with "HelloKitty"

188 victims claimed globally188 tracked hereFull profile →