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Pictures Plus and O

bd_f1794b4f6d5fc30e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jun 6, 2023

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Darkrace 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: 2023-06-06

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Pictures Plus and O'Roke Photography have over 50 years of combined experience providing School, Sports, Event & Portrait photography services in the Quad-State area. We are members of the PSPA (Professional School Photographers Association) as well as PMA (Photo Marketing Associates) and have a long history of community involvement and support. We have designed a hassle-free picture day, providing multiple photography stations to make your day run faster. We are staffed with trained and qualified personnel to ensure accuracy, quality and efficiency leading up to and on picture day. Our Customer Service cares about each and every customer. We stand by our friendly, home-town service and 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 6, 2023

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

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.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-05-30

darkrace

According to ransomware.live, DarkRace is a ransomware variant that surfaced in mid-2023 sharing strong code similarities with LockBit, employing double-extortion via a dark web leak site, but remained a minor player with fewer than 15 posted victims in its first half-year.

10 victims claimed globally10 tracked hereFull profile →