El Cerrito, CA - Official Website
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Dispossessor 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
El Cerrito is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 9, 2023
Claim posted
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Corroborated · see linked filings
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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- Leak Sitelockbit_3bd_5902367df54c38e42023-08-09Verified
Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- California State AGbd_df04d5444ea64caa2024-04-12 · +246dVerified
Filing propagation · 2 filings
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Aug 9, last Apr 12 (CA) — a 246-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
dispossessor
According to ransomware.live, This is not a ransomware group but a data broker