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Software Systems

bd_9edd01b53439b155 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 31, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Software Systems →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Medusa 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: 2023-11-01

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Software Systems is an American company providing data processing solutions for the education market and software systems for the Indiana education market. The company's main office is located at 432 S Emerson Ave Ste 200, Greenwood, Indiana, 46143, United States

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 31, 2023

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 5 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGFeb 7 · first
Montana State AGFeb 7 · first
Indiana State AGFeb 7 · first

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 2023-01-11

medusa

According to ransomware.live, Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since June 2021 that has targeted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, legal, and manufacturing using double-extortion, with attacks surging 42% between 2023 and 2024 and a formal CISA advisory issued in early 2025.

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