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Fauquier County Public Schools

bd_f525508efbd406df · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 1, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

50%

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Dispossessor 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: 2024-04-19
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Fauquier County Public Schools

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 1, 2023

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (2)

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Leak SiteOct 1 · first · this page
Maine State AG+17d
Indiana State AG+18d
Massachusetts State AG+18d

Pattern: first filing Oct 1, last Oct 19 (MA) — a 18-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

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 2020-02-03

dispossessor

According to ransomware.live, This is not a ransomware group but a data broker

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