Blackburn College
bd_94310d4c8aa11645 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Blackburn College →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Akira 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
Blackburn College is a private college in Carlinville, Illinois. Blackburn is a federally recognized work college with a student-managed work program, enabling students to gain leadership experience as they manage other students. We are going to upload 30GB ofthe college files. There are many operational files inside, HR files with personal docs of students and employees.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jan 11, 2024
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
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_0b562bdb4acb516b2024-03-05 · +53dVerified
- Vermont State AGbd_affb9d1d2c7094c02024-03-05 · +53dVerified
- New Hampshire State AGbd_06a5a768911a846a2024-03-08 · +56dVerified
- Maine State AGbd_1b0dae8c3d5a96282024-03-08 · +56dCandidate
Show 1 more filing ↓Show fewer ↑up to 81d gap
- Massachusetts State AGbd_431ee909a3523d082024-04-02 · +81dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Jan 11, last Apr 2 (MA) — a 81-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
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.
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.
akira
According to ransomware.live, The Akira ransomware group is said to have emerged in March 2023, and there's much speculation about its ties to the former CONTI ransomware group. It's worth noting that with the end of CONTI's operation, several affiliates migrated to independent campaigns such as Royal, BlackBasta, and others. According to some reports, Akira affiliates also work with other ransomware operations, such as Snatch and BlackByte, as an open directory of tools used by an Akira operator was identified, which also had connections to the Snatch ransomware. The first version of the Akira ransomware was written in C++ and appended files with the '.akira' extension, creating a ransom note named 'akira_readme.txt,' partially based on the Conti V2 source code. However, on June 29, 2023, a decryptor for this version was reportedly released by Avast. Subsequently, a version was released that fixed the decryption flaw on July 2, 2023. Since then, the new version is said to be written in Rust, this time called 'megazord.exe,' and it changes the extension to '.powerranges' for encrypted files. Most of Akira's initial access vectors use brute-force attempts on Cisco VPN devices (which use single-factor authentication only). Additionally, exploitation of CVEs: CVE-2019-6693 and CVE-2022-40684 for initial access has been identified. Source: https://github.com/crocodyli/ThreatActors-TTPs