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Paleontological Research Institution
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Full breach record for Paleontological Research Institution →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sinobi 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: 2025-10-10
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
The Paleontological Research Institution, or PRI, is a paleontological organization in Ithaca, New York with a mission including both research and education. The Paleontological Research Institution was founded in 1932.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet. If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice, or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens will merge it into an incident and link it here.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 10, 2025
- Raw hash
- b25e295752b801e1c2c82d2508c70c5d62ffcc9825227d055f0f8bf9ce863ad8
Reporting entity
- Name
- sinobi
Victim entity
- Name
- Paleontological Research Institutionnorm: paleontological research institution
- Domain
- priweb.org
- Industry
- Educationllm
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· sinobi
- Threat actor
- SinobiExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.