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Montmorency College

bd_b063df41ca70226c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Dec 26, 2022

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Montmorency College

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Avoslocker 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: 2022-12-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Cyberattack at Collège Montmorency: ~8TB personal data has been compromised by AVOSLOCKER. Board of Directors should contact with us immediately to avoid the full leak on our blog. News and facts about Cyberattack: https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/education/2022-05-21/cyberattaque-au-college-montmorency/la-direction-evoque-un-possible-vol-de-donnees-personnelles.php https://thecanadian.news/cyberattack-at-college-montmorency-personal-data-has-been-compromised/ https://www.academica.ca/top-ten/cyberattacks-strike-coll%C3%A8ge-montmorency-us-institution https://oicanadian.com/college-montmorency-victim-of-an-alleged-cyberattack/ https://www.spamchronicles.com/college-montmorency-victim-of-a-cyber-attack/ https://actualnewsmagazine.com/english/cyberattack-at-montmorency-college-the-management-evokes-a-possible-theft-of-personal-data/

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 26, 2022

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.

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 2021-06-13

avoslocker

According to ransomware.live, AvosLocker is the ransomware payload of the Avos RaaS group, active from July 2021 to approximately May 2023, targeting education, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors on Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments, with the US accounting for ~72% of victims.

70 victims claimed globally70 tracked hereFull profile →