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Academy of Model Aeronautics

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 27, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Academy of Model Aeronautics

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-08-27

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Founded in 1936, the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA)

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 27, 2024

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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteAug 27 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 27, last Sep 30 (IN) — a 33-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 2023-06-12

blacksuit

According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.

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