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THE CORNWELL QUALITY TOOLS COMPANY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 7, 2022

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for THE CORNWELL QUALITY TOOLS COMPANY →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Hive 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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2022-11-07
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 7, 2022

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

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 295d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteNov 7 · first · this page
Montana State AG+295d
California State AG+295d
Massachusetts State AG+295d
Maine State AG+295d
Indiana State AG+295d
New Hampshire State AG+295d

Pattern: first filing Nov 7, last Aug 29 (NH) — a 295-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 2021-08-14

hive

According to ransomware.live, Hive is a strain of ransomware that was first discovered in June 2021. Hive was designed to be used by Ransomware-as-a-service providers, to enable novice cyber-criminals to launch ransomware attacks on healthcare providers, energy providers, charities, and retailers across the globe. In 2022 there was a switch from GoLang to Rust.

208 victims claimed globally208 tracked hereFull profile →