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Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 16, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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: EnergyDiscovered: 2026-01-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Website www.ecsc.org Revenue $11.2 million Industry Electricity, oil and gas Energy, utilities and waste Organizational structure Similar companies Company analytics About South Carolina Electric Cooperatives Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc. is a statewide service and trade association representing electric cooperatives throughout the state. It serves 18 consumer-owned electric cooperatives, one wholesale electric cooperative, one transmission cooperative, and one materials cooperative. The association's mission is focused on providing electricity to nearly 2 million South Carolinians through an extensive network of power lines, as well as providing energy efficiency programs and clean energy initiatives. The association advocates for the electrification of rural areas and provides various resources, including educational programs and assistance in purchasing electric vehicles.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 16, 2026

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

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

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.

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.

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