Gaston College
bd_9f324ce3f5933d57 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Gaston College →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Snatch 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
Beginning with just two buildings in 1964, by the end of the 1970s a total of 10 buildings graced the Dallas, or main, Campus. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, 11 more buildings were added. It was during the mid-1990s that the College’s Lincoln Campus was
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Apr 2, 2023
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?Ransomware claims (1)
- Leak Sitenokoyawabd_398ba9c747a25eb22023-03-09 · +24dVerified by operator
Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_53511d0b016ed9812023-08-25 · +145dCandidate
- Vermont State AGbd_8dd8588b89e6f20b2023-08-25 · +145dVerified
- Montana State AGbd_115feb0035c68f6a2023-08-28 · +148dVerified
- South Carolina State AGbd_1b93a11525bbc5db2023-08-29 · +149dVerified
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- Massachusetts State AGbd_31263361e9a984602023-08-29 · +149dVerified
- New Hampshire State AGbd_930490fe30ca1f2d2023-08-29 · +149dVerified
- Maine State AGbd_f4c0d005bff0a19a2023-08-29 · +149dVerified
Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Apr 2, last Aug 29 (ME) — a 149-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.
snatch
According to ransomware.live, Snatch is a ransomware which infects victims by rebooting the PC into Safe Mode. Most of the existing security protections do not run in Safe Mode so that it the malware can act without expected countermeasures and it can encrypt as many files as it finds. It uses common packers such as UPX to hide its payload.