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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 22, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

16 records

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lockbit2 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.

Sanctions caution: Lockbit2 carries US sanctions exposure — OFAC has designated the group or its operators. Public reporting is permitted (informational-materials exemption, 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b)(3)) — but any payment or material support may violate sanctions. Consult counsel before engaging.

Group activity: Not FoundDiscovered: 2021-10-22
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 22, 2021

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 16 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 308d gap

Showing first 10 of 15 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
Washington State AGAug 15 · first
Oregon State AGAug 15 · first
South Carolina State AG+1d
Montana State AG+1d
California State AG+2d
Maine State AG+2d
HHS OCR+9d
California State AG+10d
Washington State AG+11d
Oregon State AG+11d

Pattern: first filing Aug 15 (WA), last Aug 26 (OR) — a 11-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 15 — 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 2021-09-09

lockbit2

According to ransomware.live, LockBit 2.0 is the second major iteration of the LockBit RaaS platform, launched in mid-2021, introducing automated domain-wide encryption via Active Directory Group Policy and claiming the fastest encryption speed among ransomware families, accounting for 46% of ransomware breach events in early 2022.

1,002 victims claimed globally1,002 tracked hereFull profile →