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Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 3, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Nokoyawa 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: Public SectorDiscovered: 2023-08-03

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany covers 14 counties in Eastern New York including the south west corner of a 15th county. Its Mother Church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the city of Albany.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 3, 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 2022-12-09

nokoyawa

According to ransomware.live, Nokoyawa is a double-extortion ransomware group that launched a RaaS program in 2022 (operated by threat actor "farnetwork"), primarily targeting businesses in South America across healthcare, financial services, government, and manufacturing, gaining significant attention in 2023 for exploiting a Windows CLFS zero-day (CVE-2023-28252).

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