Was International Joint Commission hit by ransomware?

International Joint Commission was listed by the NoEscape ransomware operation (United States), 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 NoEscape ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the International Joint Commission breach?

NoEscape published data attributed to International Joint Commission. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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International Joint Commission

Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 11, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Sep 11, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The International Joint Commission (IJC) is a bilateral intergovernmental body established by Canada and the United States under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909. It oversees and regulates water levels, flows, and quality along shared lakes and river systems on the Canada-U.S. border, including the Great Lakes. The IJC operates offices in Washington D.C., Ottawa, and Windsor, and administers numerous binational boards and studies.

Industry: Intergovernmental Environmental & Water Resources Commission
Address: Washington Office: 1717 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20440 (inferred from public records; not fully stated in excerpt)
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 1909

Attack summary

Severity: high — The IJC is a bilateral government body handling sensitive intergovernmental, environmental, and potentially diplomatic data shared between Canada and the United States. Data has been confirmed published (not merely listed), making this a confirmed exfiltration event involving a government entity whose data could include sensitive cross-border policy, personnel, and operational information.

NoEscape claims to have attacked the International Joint Commission and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of organizational data. The specific volume and nature of exfiltrated files are not detailed in the truncated post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government agency internal documents
Transboundary water management records
Board and committee communications
Staff and personnel information
Environmental study data
Docket and application records

What the group claims

Canada and the United States created the International Joint Commission because they recognized that each country is affected by the other's actions in lake and river systems along the border. The two countries cooperate...

Sources

Victim siteijc.org
Leak posthttp://noescapemsqxvizdxyl7f7rmg5cdjwp33pg2wpmiaaibilb4btwzttad.onion/post/9a136a60-9351-4e2c-be3d-ce13c4c71cd5

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 4, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 11, 2023International Joint Commission listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by NoEscape

NoEscape has been linked to 249 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, International Joint Commission is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by NoEscape means International Joint Commission 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on NoEscape'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.