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Monmouth College

bd_ea656c42fca7b859 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 20, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Monmouth College3 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Vicesociety 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: 2023-01-20

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Monmouth College is a private Presbyterian liberal arts college in Monmouth, Illinois. Monmouth enrolls approximately 900 students from 21 countries who choose courses from 40 major programs, 43 minors, and 17 pre-professional programs in a core curriculum.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 20, 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 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGJan 4 · first
Leak Site+16d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 4 (IN), last Mar 20 (ME) — a 441-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.

About this groupFirst seen 2021-05-31

vicesociety

According to ransomware.live, Vice Society ransomware appends the .v-society extension when encrypting Linux machines. Running a leak site on the darkweb, Possible relations with "HelloKitty"

188 victims claimed globally188 tracked hereFull profile →