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The Chattanooga Heart Institute

bd_e6c3c8f394d4bc2a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

May 23, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

14 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Chattanooga Heart Institute2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Karakurt 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: HealthcareDiscovered: 2023-05-23

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Chattanooga Heart Institute at Memorial offers a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to cardiac care. Another medical facility doesn't storage personal information safely. Employees and patients' private data will soon be here available for everyone. Medical records, tests results, diagnoses, social security numbers, passports, addresses, phone numbers, financial data and other documents are going to be uploaded.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 23, 2023

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 14 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filingsup to 310d gap

Showing first 10 of 13 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing May 23, last Mar 28 (ME) — a 310-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 13 — 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 2022-12-11

karakurt

According to ransomware.live, Karakurt is a pure data-extortion group (no encryption) assessed with high confidence to be the extortion arm of the Conti ransomware group, active from 2021, that steals data and threatens to auction or publish it unless ransoms ranging from $25,000 to $13 million are paid.

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