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Danbury Public Schools

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 1, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Danbury Public Schools →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cryptbb 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: 2023-09-15

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Danbury Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut. In 2006 Eddie Davis retired from being superintendent. Salvatore Pascarella succeeded Davis that year.https://www.danbury.k12.ct.us/

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 1, 2023

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 7 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 59d gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Aug 7 (NH), last Sep 29 (VT) — a 53-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 2022-04-03

cryptbb

According to ransomware.live, CryptBB is a ransomware group with likely Russian origins active around 2023, whose payload appends random extensions to encrypted files and whose data leak site copied 8Base's source code, listing approximately 8 victims as of September 2023.

8 victims claimed globally8 tracked hereFull profile →