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Church of the Ascension Anglican

bd_f179cef2b06b6baf · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Nov 26, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Church of the Ascension Anglican

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Ciphbit 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: Not FoundDiscovered: 2025-11-26

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Church of the Ascension Anglican is a faith-based organization part of the Anglican Communion. They focus on the teachings of Jesus Christ and rely on the Book of Common Prayer for worship. The church is a welcoming and accepting community, offering regular mass, youth programmes, community outreach and service initiatives. Their mission is to grow the body of Christ by ministering to their congregation and their local community.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 26, 2025

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 2023-09-14

ciphbit

According to ransomware.live, CiphBit is a ransomware-as-a-service group active since April 2023, targeting small-to-mid-sized businesses across the UK, Europe, and North America with 38 known victims, employing a data-broker model with selective free leaks to pressure victims alongside standard double extortion.

36 victims claimed globally36 tracked hereFull profile →