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The Cannon Corporation

bd_a8d7c520be3f9002 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 26, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

12 records

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Dunghill 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: ConstructionDiscovered: 2023-09-26
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

CannonDesign is a global architecture, engineering and consulting practice that provides services for a range of project types, including hospitals and medical centers, corporate headquarters and commercial office buildings, higher education and PK-12 education facilities, hotels and hospitality, mixed-use, sports facilities, and science and research buildings. In 2017 and 2019, Fast Company named CannonDesign one of the 10 most innovative architecture firms in the world.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 26, 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 12 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 356d gap

Showing first 10 of 11 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGAug 1 · first
Indiana State AG+18d
Montana State AG+18d
Vermont State AG+18d
Massachusetts State AG+18d
Maine State AG+18d
New Hampshire State AG+18d
California State AG+18d
New Hampshire State AG+46d
Massachusetts State AG+46d

Pattern: first filing Aug 1 (IL), last Sep 16 (MA) — a 46-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 11 — the full spread may be wider.

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 2023-04-10

dunghill

According to ransomware.live, Dunghill Leak is the data extortion site operated by the Dark Angels ransomware group, active since early 2023, targeting large enterprises across healthcare, finance, industrial, and technology sectors using a highly selective non-affiliate model, and responsible for a record-breaking $75 million ransom payment in 2024.

16 victims claimed globally16 tracked hereFull profile →