Wide Open West - WOW!
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Full breach record for Wide Open West - WOW! →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Arkana 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
Wide Open West (WOW!) is the sixth largest cable operator in the United States. It provides telecommunications, broadband, and cable television services. Its portfolio includes high-speed internet, data, voice, cloud services, and cable television. Operating mainly in the Midwest and Southeast, WOW! is recognized for exceptional service and nationally ranked for customer satisfaction.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Mar 24, 2025
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
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.
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.
arkana
According to ransomware.live, Arkana is a ransomware group that emerged in early 2025 and gained attention by claiming an attack on U.S. broadband provider WideOpenWest (WOW!), operating a three-phase ransom/sale/leak extortion model primarily focused on telecom and internet service providers.