Etex Communications
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Full breach record for Etex Communications →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blackbyte 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
The Company’s rich heritage and continued desire to bring the very best communications services and technology to subscribers is evidenced by the evolutions of the network from open wire strung along fence posts and outhouses to the digital fiber optic network in place today.Etex Telephone Cooperative boasts a service territory of 710 square miles of rural East Texas. Customers within this service area are given the opportunity to purchase local, long distance, digital TV and internet (dial-up and DSL) services at rates comparable to those found in urban areas around the state. Deployment of fiber in the loop further enhances our ability to offer other broadband services.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/id/RXRleCBDb21tdW5pY2F0aW9uc0BibGFja2J5dGU=
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 16, 2023
- Raw hash
- 32d9113737ac5eb1e0c2dc1435d3fdeaccab1f5c6e5f123c12127b33d563aba9
Reporting entity
- Name
- blackbyte
Victim entity
- Name
- Etex Communicationsnorm: etex communications
- Domain
- etex.net
- Industry
- Telecom & Mediallm
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· blackbyte
- Threat actor
- BlackbyteExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.