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The Municipal Administration of Barranquitas

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 18, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Municipal Administration of Barranquitas →3 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Blacklock 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: 2025-05-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Company description · AI-generated by the aggregator, not the leak post

"Barranquitas Municipal Administration and its Department of Finance" is the local government body responsible for the operational management and financial well-being of Barranquitas, a municipality in Puerto Rico. They oversee services such as public works, health, education, and social welfare programs. The Department of Finance within the administration handles budgeting, expenditures, and financial planning.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 18, 2024

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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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

  • 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 2023-11-27

blacklock

According to ransomware.live, BlackLock is a rebranded version of another ransomware group known as Eldorado. It has since become one of the most active extortion syndicates in 2025, heavily targeting technology, manufacturing, construction, finance, and retail sectors.

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