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Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society

Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago

40m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 10, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Royal
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Construction
Listed on leak site
Mar 10, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society is a Canadian non-profit society founded in July 1983. It operates three sites, including Adanac Park Lodge (APL) and Little Mountain Place (LMP), which are residential care homes providing 24-hour care for adults. The organization is based in British Columbia, Canada.

Industry
Residential Care & Supportive Housing
Founded
1983

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a residential care operator providing 24-hour care to vulnerable adults, making it highly likely that regulated sensitive data including personal health information (PHI) and PII of residents is involved. The 'data_published' status confirms exfiltration and public release of data from a healthcare/social care setting, which constitutes a critical disclosure under applicable Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA/BC PIPA).

The Royal ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. The specific data types and volume have not been detailed in the available post excerpt.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Resident personal information
  • Staff records
  • Non-profit organizational data
  • Potentially medical/care records

What the group claims

Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society (the Society) is a non-profit society created in July 1983. The Society operates 3 sites. Adanac Park Lodge (APL) and Little Mountain Place (LMP) are residential care homes for adults requiring 24-hour.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Royal

Royal is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with over 200 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group is believed to operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model, though their exact country of origin remains unclear based on publicly available intelligence. Royal primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns and exploitation of remote desktop protocols, subsequently deploying custom ransomware that encrypts victim files while exfiltrating sensitive data for double extortion tactics. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting critical infrastructure and public services, with notable attacks against educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and government entities primarily in the United States, though they have also significantly impacted organizations across Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Their encryption methodology involves custom-built malware that systematically encrypts files while maintaining persistence on compromised networks. As of recent reporting from federal agencies including CISA and FBI advisories, Royal remains an active threat with ongoing campaigns targeting organizations across their preferred sectors, particularly focusing on entities with limited cybersecurity resources that may be more likely to pay ransom demands. The group has been linked to 211 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 4, 2022; most recent post July 19, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 10, 2023Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society listed by Royalon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Royal

Royal has been linked to 211 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Royal dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Royal means Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Royal's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.