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GLOBALMalwareEducationEducationRansomwareByodRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

Michigan State University

bd_81cb8fbe6682f22e · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 1, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Michigan State University →5 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Byod 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: 2026-11-02

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Full Personal Identifiable Information for 1.03 million current and ex students as well as the full team in relations to MSU, we also have current and ex passwords, as well as a full compromise towards your System, don't let it scale any further, you've been given the chance to the make the right choice. Anyways, you know where to find us (contact tab). We will take you down when communication has been established between our team and yours.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Nov 1, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

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 group

byod

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