Kershaw County School District
bd_f94b4b385339b26c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Kershaw County School District →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group BlackSuit (formerly Royal) 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
Nestled in the heart of the Palmetto State, the Kershaw County School District is home to almost 10,000 students and over 1,300 employees in 20 schools
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jan 3, 2024
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
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- South Carolina State AGbd_a313bfa7168c5c612024-10-10 · +280dVerified
Filing propagation · 2 filings
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Jan 3, last Oct 10 (SC) — a 280-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?
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.
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.
blacksuit
According to ransomware.live, According to Trend Micro, this ransomware has significant code overlap with Royal Ransomware.