DisclosureLens
GLOBALMalwareEducationEducationRansomwareVicesocietyRansom DemandedActor NamedMedium

HAW Hamburg

bd_893a28d262f97ad2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 5, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for HAW Hamburg

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Vicesociety 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: 2023-03-05

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Developing sustainable solutions to the societal challenges of today and tomorrow. This is the goal of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), northern Germany's leading applied sciences university when it comes to reflective practice. People from more than 100 countries help make HAW Hamburg what it is, and our diversity is our particular strength.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 5, 2023

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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 groupFirst seen 2021-05-31

vicesociety

According to ransomware.live, Vice Society ransomware appends the .v-society extension when encrypting Linux machines. Running a leak site on the darkweb, Possible relations with "HelloKitty"

188 victims claimed globally188 tracked hereFull profile →