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Ampersand

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 17, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Ampersand →4 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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: TechnologyDiscovered: 2023-10-17
View aggregator listing on ransomware.live

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Ampersand is a data-driven TV advertising sales and technology company. We reach 116 million multiscreen households, providing viewership insights and planning on 42 million households, in 200+ DMAs, across more than 165+ networks and in all dayparts. Meet Ampersand. The vision for NCC Media was born by a couple, Linda and Bob Williams, in Boston in 1981. Originally called New England Cable Rep, these two entrepreneurs ambitiously set out to unify cable inventory so that an advertiser could have a simpler way to buy cable programming in the local TV market.SITE: www.ampersand.tv Address 151 W 42nd St Fl 11 New York City, New York 10036, United States

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 17, 2023

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

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.

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.