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Danbury Public Schools

bd_7abd546aca75501b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 1, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

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

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 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (2)

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 59d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Aug 1, last Sep 29 (VT) — a 59-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 →