Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany
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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.
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.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 3, 2023
Claim posted
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Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
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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).