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Paul Smith’s College

bd_9ecc4e3f224e37bc · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 26, 2022

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Paul Smith’s College

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Avoslocker 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: 2022-12-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

At Paul Smith's College, it's about the experience. We are the only four-year institution offering broad-based higher education in the Adirondacks. Our programs...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 26, 2022

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 112d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Dec 26, last Apr 17 (MT) — a 112-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 2021-06-13

avoslocker

According to ransomware.live, AvosLocker is the ransomware payload of the Avos RaaS group, active from July 2021 to approximately May 2023, targeting education, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors on Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments, with the US accounting for ~72% of victims.

70 victims claimed globally70 tracked hereFull profile →