Mecklenburg County Public Schools
bd_d360cda77ddefc3a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Mecklenburg County Public Schools →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Qilin 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
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, USA - Do you keep your children's secrets? They are the most precious thing you have. They must not be betrayed. And that is exactly what the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District (CMS) specializes in. T ...
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Sep 29, 2025
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?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_10804d8fed4d09af2025-11-14 · +46dVerified by operator
- Massachusetts State AGbd_f353373dc43b29542025-11-14 · +46dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Sep 29, last Nov 14 (MA) — a 46-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.
qilin
According to ransomware.live, Qilin ransomware was first observed in July of 2022. Qilin Ransomware is written in Golang and supports multiple encryption modes; all of which are controlled by the operator. Qilin actors practice double extortion – demanding payment for a decryptor, as well as for the non-release of stolen data.