Cherokee County School District
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Full breach record for Cherokee County School District →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Interlock 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
The school nurse has the expertise to identify, assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the health needs of the individual student and the school community. School nurses, grounded in ethical and evidence-based practice, are leaders who link health and education, provide care coordination, advocate for quality student-centered care, and collaborate to develop systems that enable individuals and communities to reach their full potential. (Adopted by the National Association of School Nurses Board of Directors, February 2017). But Cherokee County School District, for all its talents, is rather negligent about the security of its network. We present to your attention the personal data of employees, financial and tax reports.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Mar 16, 2025
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 (2) · sorted by filing gap
- Pressinterlockbd_aaebd69abc7831a52025-03-15 · +1dCandidate
- South Carolina State AGbd_87089532070cfe952025-09-03 · +171dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 3 filings
View merged incident ↗Pattern: first filing Mar 15, last Sep 3 (SC) — a 172-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.
interlock
According to ransomware.live, Interlock is a ransomware group first observed in September 2024 that targets critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, government, education, and technology across North America and Europe using double-extortion, with 57+ claimed victims including a major US dialysis provider exposing over two million patient records.