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Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany

bd_dea8c959fd1ea749 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 16, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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: Public SectorDiscovered: 2025-05-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Catholic Charities, a ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Albany, is committed to active witness on behalf of the Scriptural values of mercy and justice. Catholic Charities, recognizing human need at all stages of life, responds to all persons regardless of race, creed, or lifestyle, with special emphasis on the economically poor and the vulnerable. Catholic Charities serves and empowers persons in need, advocates for a just society, calls forth and collaborates with women and men of good will in fulfillment of its mission. Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany is one of the largest, private, social service agencies in the region, helping more than 89,000 people each year in the fourteen counties of the Albany Diocese. Our motive is simple: to address basic human need at all stages of life regardless of race, religious belief, ethnicity, or lifestyle with special emphasis on the poor and vulnerable in our society. Catholic Charities offers a wide spectrum of services. ===> Revenue: $5 Million Employees: 66 Industry: Organizations Data:200gb Phone Number: ([REDACTED-PHONE] Employees: Mary Keniry (Program Director / LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM) ---> [REDACTED-PHONE] Kristine Eagan - (Program Coordinator PT / HIICAP) ---> ([REDACTED-PHONE] Lauren Benoit (Program Director / CAREGIVER SUPPORT PROGRAM) ---> [REDACTED-PHONE] Marlene Hildenbrandt - (Executive Director / ADMINISTRATION) ---> [REDACTED-PHONE] Karen Helms - (Administrative Assistant PT / ADMINISTRATION) ---> ([REDACTED-PHONE] Colleen Henry - (Program Secretary / ADMINISTRATION) ---> ([REDACTED-PHONE] James Willis - (Senior Accountant / ADMINISTRATION) ---> ([REDACTED-PHONE] Jennifer Doherty - (Elder Care Manager/ AGING LIFE SERVICES) ---> [REDACTED-PHONE] Amy Carman - (Elder Care Manager/ AGING LIFE SERVICES) ---> [REDACTED-PHONE] Cody Jacobson (IT Security Officer) ---> [REDACTED-PHONE] Cathy Krom ---> [REDACTED-PHONE] L

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 16, 2025

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 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (2)

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteMay 16 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing May 16, last Dec 4 (MA) — a 202-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.