Paul Smith’s College
bd_9ecc4e3f224e37bc · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
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.
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...
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Dec 26, 2022
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
Not assessable
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap
- Maine State AGbd_1975423568504eb42023-02-16 · +52dVerified by operator
- Montana State AGbd_93340885d0e3fae72023-02-16 · +52dVerified by operator
- Massachusetts State AGbd_cbbec111a6d391532023-02-16 · +52dVerified by operator
- Indiana State AGbd_2136c636b93dba282023-02-17 · +53dVerified
Show 3 more filings ↓Show fewer ↑up to 112d gap
- Vermont State AGbd_278f4e894c3727852023-02-17 · +53dVerified
- New Hampshire State AGbd_bfee719da1d2219d2023-02-21 · +57dVerified
- Montana State AGbd_749a2116957e89162023-04-17 · +112dVerified by operator
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
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.
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.