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Karnes Electric Cooperative, U SA

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 10, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Karnes Electric Cooperative, U SA →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Qilin 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: EnergyDiscovered: 2025-10-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Karnes Electric Cooperative, USA is a not-for-profit electric distribution utility that serves 12 counties in South Texas and the Coastal Bend region. Headquartered in Karnes City, Texas, it offers competitive rates and innovative solutions t ...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 10, 2025

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 2 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

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.

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 2022-10-08

qilin

According to ransomware.live, Qilin ransomware was first observed in July of 2022. Qilin Ransomware is written in Golang and supports multiple encryption modes; all of which are controlled by the operator. Qilin actors practice double extortion – demanding payment for a decryptor, as well as for the non-release of stolen data.

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