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I.L.A. Local 1964

bd_d8f431ea6e00c22a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 29, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for I.L.A. Local 1964

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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: Transportation/LogisticsDiscovered: 2024-05-29

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Local 1964, International Longshoremen’s Association, Industrial & Miscellaneous Workers, represents workers in various industries and professions, running the gamut from Ocean Shipping, Trucking & Warehousing Logistics, to Nurses Aides, Dialysis Technicians, Building Maintenance workers, Grocery Store and Laundry Workers. Chartered in 1970 the people of Local 1964 I.L.A. have fought hard to negotiate higher wages, good Health Benefits, Pensions, Vacations and Sick leave for its Union members for over 50 years. We have insisted that Employers maintain and deliver decent working conditions and schedules. Additionally, Local 1964 I.L.A. has gone to every length to protect its members and provide job security to every worker covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement. Local 1964 is one of the largest International Longshoremen’s Local Unions with Union Membership in States stretching from the East Coast to California and multiple other States throughout the country from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Local 1964 I.L.A. belongs to The South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District, Atlantic Coast District and the Great Lakes District of the I.L.A. It is with your participation in mind that we have created this website. We hope that this tool helps you regarding frequently asked questions about your Union membership, organizing and benefits. The strength of any Union is its Members and the degree to which those Members participate. Local 1964 has always encouraged its members to participate in Union affairs.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

May 29, 2024

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

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

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.

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.

About this groupFirst seen 2022-10-20

dragonforce

According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.

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