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Pay Tel Communications

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Full breach record for Pay Tel Communications →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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: TelecommunicationDiscovered: 2025-06-26

View aggregator listing on ransomware.live

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Pay Tel Communications, Inc. specializes in providing technology solutions designed to enhance safety and efficiency within confinement facilities and support the needs of incarcerated individuals. Their product offerings include secure communication platforms, educational resources, and multi-function tablets aimed at improving the lives of detainees. The data includes: 10,000+ video call recordings 10,000+ audio call recordings 20,000+ scans of physical mail 70,000+ work-related documents The list of facilities affected by the breach: Alexander County NC Alleghany County Jail NC Alleghany Covington Regional Jail VA Anderson County SC Ashe County Jail NC Barnwell County Jail SC Bartow County GA Beaufort County Detention Center NC Bertie Martin Regional Jail NC Bleckley County Jail GA Bradford County Jail FL Burke Catawba NC Burke County GA Burke County Jail NC Butts County GA Carteret County Detention Center NC Caswell County Detention Center NC Catawba County NC Chatham County GA Citrus County Jail Colleton County Jail SC Columbia County GA Coweta County GA Crisp County Jail GA Currituck County Detention Center NC Dare County Jail NC Davidson County Detention NC Davie County Jail NC Dooly County Jail GA Dorchester SC (St George and Summerville) Duchesne County Detention Center UT Duplin County Detention Center NC Eastern Shore Regional VA Edgecombe County Jail NC Elbert County Jail GA Emanuel County Jail GA Fauquier County Det Center VA Flagler County Jail FL Florence County Jail SC Forsyth County Jail GA Forsyth County Jail NC Franklin County Jail FL Franklin County Jail GA Franklin County Jail MO Franklin County Jail NC Gadsden County FL Gilmer County Jail GA Glynn County Detention Center GA Gordon County Jail GA Granville County Jail NC Greene County NC Guilford County Juvenile Center Guilford County NC Halifax County Jail NC Haralson County Jail GA Heard County

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet. If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice, or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens will merge it into an incident and link it here.

Source provenance

Source URL: https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 25, 2025
Raw hash: 88bd071b481d082f3ddfaddc77af3f02b9a7f4f0bd40480718ff1d6d1b354b8b

Reporting entity

Name: dragonforce

Victim entity

Name: Pay Tel Communications
norm: pay tel communications
Domain: paytel.com
Industry: Telecom & Mediallm

What this source establishes

Source ceiling: A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
Discovered: Jun 26, 2025
Attack vector: Ransomware· dragonforce
Threat actor: DragonforceExternalFinancial

Compliance

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.