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News-Press and Gazette Co.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 26, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

12 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for News-Press and Gazette Co. →2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Termite 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: TelecommunicationDiscovered: 2025-09-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

News-Press & Gazette Company publishes daily newspapers and weekly publications. It provides cable, internet, and digital telephone services, as well as commercial printing services, such as Web and sheet-fed services. In addition, it operates television and radio stations. It was established in 1845 and is headquartered in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 26, 2025

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 12 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (3)

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 86d gap

Showing first 10 of 11 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
Washington State AGDec 17 · first
Texas State AGDec 17 · first
California State AGDec 17 · first
Oregon State AGDec 17 · first
Indiana State AGDec 17 · first
Massachusetts State AGDec 17 · first

Pattern: first filing Dec 17 (WA), last Dec 22 (NH) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 11 — the full spread may be wider.

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 2023-05-11

termite

According to ransomware.live, Termite is a ransomware group first identified in late 2024 using a modified version of Babuk ransomware code; its most notable attack was the November 2024 breach of supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder, claiming 680 GB of exfiltrated data and disrupting major customers including Starbucks.

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