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 9, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 30, 2023www.sciencehistory.org listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.sciencehistory.org is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Science History Institute

listed as www.sciencehistory.org · Claimed by NoEscape · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 30, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Nov 30, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Science History Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of science and its role in daily life. It operates a museum, research library (the Othmer Library), digital collections, oral history archives, and educational outreach programs. The Institute also publishes Distillations magazine and hosts conferences, fellowships, and public programming.

Industry: Non-profit Museum & Research Library (History of Science)
Address: 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', meaning NoEscape has already released stolen data publicly. As a non-profit institution, records likely include PII of staff, fellows, donors, researchers, and potentially minors (school tours/educational programs), making the confirmed publication of exfiltrated data a high-severity event.

NoEscape claims to have attacked the Science History Institute and the disclosure status indicates data has been published, though no specific details on encryption or exfiltration scope are available from the captured leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Institutional records
Staff and fellowship data
Donor and supporter information
Research and archival materials
Financial records (likely, given non-profit operations)

Sources

Victim sitesciencehistory.org

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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