Montana State University
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Full breach record for Montana State University →4 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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
Montana State University, located in the city of Bozeman, is an educational institution that offers a variety of academic programs and activities for students as well as a variety of personal document of the same student for everyone interested. They failed to storage personal data in a right way and lost 105GB. You can find there money flow of a big University as it represented in numerous financial and administrative documents. Students' personal and medical information is also available like in our previous post about their affiliated college. We will share it soon.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Apr 29, 2023
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
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
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.
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.
blacksuit
According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.