Colonial Pipeline Company
bd_a029ce4f4c606d12 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Colonial Pipeline Company →3 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ransomed 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
Threat actors – they hide amongst us. It is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate these bad actors from our heroic cyber front-line responders, who work night & day to protect their clients from ever-growing cyber threats. In fact, as we’ll discuss here, some of these threat actors operate under the guise of powerful cyber-security executives....
J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source
Incident timeline — mostly unverified
? — ?
Breach window unknown
Oct 15, 2023
Claim posted
—
No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
—
Compliance clock
Not assessable
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.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
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.
ransomed
According to ransomware.live, RansomedVC was a short-lived extortion group active from August to November 2023 that claimed high-profile victims including Sony, innovating by threatening GDPR regulatory fines as an additional extortion lever; it briefly operated as a RaaS before shutting down in an apparent exit scam following reported arrests of six members.