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GAUTENG PARTNERSHIP FUND

bd_f23fac1af2da1551 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 13, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Darkvault 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: Public SectorDiscovered: 2024-08-13

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The Gauteng Partnership Fund, an agency of the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements, combines resources from the private and public sectors to speed up the development of affordable rental housing near amenities and economic opportunities. Its aim is to enhance the socioeconomic state of Gauteng communities.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 13, 2024

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 2024-02-08

darkvault

According to ransomware.live, DarkVault is a data-exfiltration and double-extortion group first identified in late 2023, targeting medium-to-large organizations in finance, professional services, legal, and technology sectors across Europe, the UK, and North America, with a suspected connection to LockBit.

55 victims claimed globally55 tracked hereFull profile →