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City of Gardendale

bd_f74dc9b690b03ddf · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jun 7, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for City of Gardendale

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom 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: 2025-07-04

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Gardendale Fire and Rescue is currently providing services to our community with a roster consisting of a fulltime Fire Chief, Fire Marshal and eighteen (18) Fire/Medics. The Department provides all fire, medical ALS [Advance Life Support] and various technical services to our community of approximately 50 square miles. The Department currently operates out of Fire Station #1 located at 1811 Decatur Highway. Fire Department administrators and city officials are working towards the construction of two additional satellite stations in the western and eastern areas of the city to cover the growing number of new subdivisions and businesses we are experiencing. Through the dedication, knowledge and experience within our department staff, we feel we can provide the citizens and patrons of Gardendale with the finest protection, best services, and the highest quality of life possible.Revenue: $5 Million Employees: 91 Industry: Government Downloaded: 45GB Phone Number:([REDACTED-PHONE]

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jun 7, 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

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