Was Southern Alberta Community Living Association hit by ransomware?

Southern Alberta Community Living Association was listed by the INC Ransom ransomware operation (Canada), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the INC Ransom ransomware group?

INC Ransom is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Southern Alberta Community Living Association breach?

INC Ransom published data attributed to Southern Alberta Community Living Association. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Southern Alberta Community Living Association

Claimed by INC Ransom · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 18, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: INC Ransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Jan 18, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Southern Alberta Community Living Association (SACLA) is a Canadian non-profit organization established in 1980 that provides individualized services and supports for individuals with disabilities in southern Alberta. The association focuses on building inclusive communities and tailoring services to each individual's unique needs through comprehensive consultations. SACLA also runs programs such as MyCompass and CATALYST to promote empowerment and address unemployment among marginalized groups.

Industry: Disability & Community Support Services
Founded: 1980

Attack summary

Severity: high — SACLA serves individuals with disabilities, meaning exfiltrated data likely includes sensitive personal and health-related information about a vulnerable population. The 'data_published' status confirms actual data exfiltration and public release, elevating severity beyond medium despite the lack of explicit data volume figures.

INC Ransom claims to have compromised SACLA and has published data from the organization, as indicated by the 'data_published' disclosure status. The nature of the exfiltrated data is not explicitly detailed in the leak post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client personal information
Disability support records
Individual service plans
Organizational program data
Employee records

What the group claims

SACLA provides individualized services and supports aimed at assisting individuals with disabilities to achieve their personal goals. Established in 1980, the association focuses on building vibrant communities where every person is connected, contributing, and valued. Their services are tailored to the unique needs of each individual, beginning with a comprehensive consultation to determine the best approach for fostering quality of life and aspirations. SACLA also engages in projects like MyCompass and CATALYST to promote empowerment and address issues such as unemployment for marginalized groups.

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About INC Ransom

INC Ransom is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and has since compromised 832 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal Ransomware-as-a-Service model. While detailed attack methodologies for INC Ransom have not been extensively documented by major security firms, their victim distribution indicates they employ broad-spectrum targeting approaches that have successfully penetrated healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting English-speaking countries, with the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom representing their primary victim demographics, alongside significant activity in Germany and Australia. Notable campaigns or high-profile attacks by INC Ransom have not been prominently featured in major threat intelligence publications from CISA, FBI, or leading security researchers, suggesting they may operate with a lower public profile despite their substantial victim count. INC Ransom remains active as of current intelligence assessments, with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 853 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post June 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 18, 2026Southern Alberta Community Living Association listed by INC Ransomon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by INC Ransom

INC Ransom has been linked to 853 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 Public Sector sector, which has 260 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Southern Alberta Community Living Association is reported in Canada, a country with 810 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by INC Ransom means Southern Alberta Community Living Association 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on INC Ransom'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.