Was Seattle Housing Authority hit by ransomware?

Seattle Housing Authority 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?

NoEscape 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 Seattle Housing Authority breach?

NoEscape published data attributed to Seattle Housing Authority. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Seattle Housing Authority

Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

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since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 12, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Oct 12, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) is a public agency established in 1939 that provides safe and affordable housing to low-income residents in Seattle, Washington. SHA manages thousands of public housing units and administers rental assistance programs such as Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8). As a government-affiliated housing authority, it serves vulnerable populations including low-income families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities.

Industry: Public Housing Authority
Address: 190 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
Employees: 500-1000
Founded: 1939

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The Seattle Housing Authority handles regulated PII at scale for a vulnerable low-income population, including financial, housing assistance, and benefits data. As a public government housing agency, exfiltration and publication of this data constitutes a critical breach of sensitive regulated information affecting potentially thousands of residents.

NoEscape claims to have exfiltrated data from the Seattle Housing Authority, with the disclosure status marked as data_published, indicating stolen data has been released or made available. The compromised data likely includes sensitive personal and financial information belonging to low-income residents and staff.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Tenant personally identifiable information (PII)
Financial assistance records
Housing voucher program data
Employee records
Government program documentation
Income and benefits information

What the group claims

Established in 1939, the Seattle Housing Authority provides safe and affordable living environments that foster stability and self-sufficiency for people with low incomes i...

Sources

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

October 12, 2023Seattle Housing Authority 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Seattle Housing Authority 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 Seattle Housing Authority 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.