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Abilene Independent School District (Abilene ISD)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jul 4, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 records

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Cloak 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: EducationDiscovered: 2024-07-04
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 4, 2024

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 7 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 133d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGNov 15 · first
Vermont State AGNov 15 · first
Indiana State AGNov 15 · first
Massachusetts State AGNov 15 · first
Maine State AGNov 15 · first
Montana State AGNov 15 · first

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 2023-08-24

cloak

According to ransomware.live, Cloak is a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since late 2022, primarily targeting small-to-medium enterprises in Europe — especially Germany — across manufacturing, healthcare, education, and government sectors, with expansion into North American and Asian targets by 2025.

168 victims claimed globally168 tracked hereFull profile →