Was Ktunaxa Nation Council hit by ransomware?

Ktunaxa Nation Council was listed by the LEAKNET ransomware operation (Canada) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the LEAKNET ransomware group?

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Ktunaxa Nation Council

Claimed by LEAKNET · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedJun 15, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: LEAKNET
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Canada
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Jun 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ktunaxa Nation Council is a government agency representing the Ktunaxa First Nation in Canada. The organization handles administrative and governance functions for the Indigenous nation.

Industry: Government / Indigenous Administration

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of government agency database; Indigenous government data is sensitive and regulated. Lack of proof files in excerpt prevents classification as critical, but the claim of full database compromise of a public sector entity warrants high severity.

LEAKNET claims to have exfiltrated the full database of Ktunaxa Nation Council. The specific nature of the data and extent of operational impact are not detailed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

government database records
administrative files

What the group claims

A government agency described as doing the opposite of proper security practices.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

##### The Far East Horizon Limited Full Database Leak: When Corporate Security Became a Illusion
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##### When Scale Outruns Safety: The Far East Horizon Limited Story
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##### Ktunaxa Nation Council: A Government Agency’s Guide to Doing the Opposite
#Leaknet #OnlineSafety #SecurityAlert #CyberAwareness #DigitalRisk #Ktunaxa #KtunaxaNation
##### The City That Leaked Itself: Greenfield City
##### The Boston Capital Leak: A Story of Stolen Data and Broken Confidence

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Ktunaxa Nation Council

Sources

Leak posthttp://nleakk6sejx45jxtk7x6iyt65hwvfrkifc5v7ertdlwm3gttbpvlvxqd.onion

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About LEAKNET

In the cyber-undergrounds, we're exploring shadowed corridors of the digital world in search of inside information. we’re a digital watchdog operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, internet freedom, and investigative journalism. We delve into the hidden corners of the web, exposing truths and uncovering stories that are often buried by mainstream media or distorted by corporate interests. This project isn’t just for tech experts or privacy advocates. It’s for everyone who values transparency, freedom, and integrity in a connected world. Operating independently, we’re free from corporate influence and political bias, enabling us to report with uncompromising honesty. Our work resonates with a diverse audience cybersecurity experts, digital rights activists, journalists, and anyone who values an internet free from control. In a world where the lines between truth and agenda grow increasingly blurred, we’re building something bold, the space where the truth of the internet can be uncovered, untamed and unfiltered. Our project is an independent voice for digital freedom, committed to shining a light on the internet’s most vital and vulnerable spaces: cybersecurity, privacy, and the right to information without compromise. In a landscape clouded by agendas and profit, we are here to do one thing: deliver the truth, boldly and beautifully. Join us as we push back against the systems that seek to compromise our digital freedoms and carve a path toward a more transparent, liberated internet. The group has been linked to 4 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 15, 2026Ktunaxa Nation Council listed by LEAKNETon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by LEAKNET

LEAKNET has been linked to 4 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ktunaxa Nation Council is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by LEAKNET means Ktunaxa Nation Council appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 LEAKNET'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.