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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 27, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

19 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center →5 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Interlock 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: EducationDiscovered: 2024-10-27

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Beginning in 1969 as the Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is now a five-school, comprehensive health-related university with campuses in Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas/Fort Worth, Lubbock and Midland/Odessa. We present to you a large collection of confidential documents, including - patient data, medical research, a large set of SQL databases.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 27, 2024

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 19 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 547d gap

Showing first 10 of 18 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 9 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Jan 25 (MA), last Apr 27 (TX) — a 457-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 18 — the full spread may be wider.

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 2023-12-01

interlock

According to ransomware.live, Interlock is a ransomware group first observed in September 2024 that targets critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, government, education, and technology across North America and Europe using double-extortion, with 57+ claimed victims including a major US dialysis provider exposing over two million patient records.

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