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GLOBALMalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareKarakurtRansom DemandedActor NamedData Leak ThreatenedData PublishedHigh

OptionMetrics, LLC

bd_d20284b82eceb60b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Mar 31, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for OptionMetrics, LLC

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Karakurt 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: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2023-03-31

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

OptionMetrics provides its customers with databases of various business directions. They have shared some databases with us also. Here is what we got: great amount of financial and accounting data, business contacts, signed contracts, employees information and that DBs as well, of course. In total you can check 450 GB of sweet data.Have fun!

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 31, 2023

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteMar 31 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 31, last Jul 6 (MA) — a 97-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 2022-12-11

karakurt

According to ransomware.live, Karakurt is a pure data-extortion group (no encryption) assessed with high confidence to be the extortion arm of the Conti ransomware group, active from 2021, that steals data and threatens to auction or publish it unless ransoms ranging from $25,000 to $13 million are paid.

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