Spirit Cultural Exchange - US
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Full breach record for Spirit Cultural Exchange - US →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Kazu 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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Spirit Cultural Exchange is a U.S.-based organization that provides international cultural exchange and J-1 visa programs for students, young professionals, teachers, and international participants. Its programs include Summer Work and Travel, internships, professional training, and teaching opportunities in the United States
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Sep 5, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
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kazu
According to ransomware.live, Kazu is an emerging ransomware group active since September 2025 that employs double-extortion tactics, targeting government, healthcare, and financial organizations primarily in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, with notable claimed breaches including Dubai's Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation with 1.94 TB exfiltrated.