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Audio Video

bd_bc9cbe14dc96d2f3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 1, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Audio Video

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ransomhouse 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: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2023-03-01

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Established in 1946 by WWII Veteran Milton A. Klarsfeld, Audio-Video Corporation was initially named The Albany Television Headquarters and was located on Hudson Avenue in Albany, NY. In 1954 the company changed its name to Audio-Video Corporation to better identify with current technology and services. Audio-Video Corporation headquarters is located in Albany, NY with a full service branch office in Syracuse, NY. Additionally, there are three satellite offices spread across NY and New England. Locations include Syracuse NY, Rochester NY, and Burlington VT.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 1, 2023

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 2021-06-01

ransomhouse

According to ransomware.live, RansomHouse is a double-extortion RaaS operation active since late 2021, attributed to the threat actor "Jolly Scorpius," targeting over 120 organizations across healthcare, finance, transportation, and government, recently upgrading to a multi-layered dual-key encryption architecture.

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