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Sound Publishing

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Full breach record for Sound Publishing →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Black Basta 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: 2023-03-08

View aggregator listing on ransomware.live

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Sound Publishing is the leading journalistic voice in the communities that we serve. Our 43 award-winning publications in Washington and Alaska provide vetted news and information to over 3.5-million digital viewers and 144K email subscribers each month. Each week, we distribute over 392K newspapers to our readers. Our news outlets are where the intellectually curious delve into ideas and conversations to inform their daily decisions. Whenever, and however, they choose to consume our content.SITE: https://www.soundpublishing.com Address PO Box 930Everett, WA98206-0930

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet. If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice, or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens will merge it into an incident and link it here.

Source provenance

Source URL: https://www.ransomware.live/id/U291bmQgUHVibGlzaGluZ0BibGFja2Jhc3Rh
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 8, 2023
Raw hash: 65b8c0f11197cc39a2142f0ddc6e0f49313a85d9937a0b22a9b4f99d645b0790

Reporting entity

Name: blackbasta
norm: black_basta

Victim entity

Name: Sound Publishing
norm: sound publishing
Domain: soundpublishing.com
Industry: Retail & Consumer

What this source establishes

Source ceiling: A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
Attack vector: Ransomware· black_basta
Threat actor: Black BastaExternalFinancial

Compliance

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.