Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsScience History Institute
Claimed by NoEscape · listed 2 years ago
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 profileThe Science History Institute is a Philadelphia-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing the history of science. It operates a public museum, the Othmer Library, archival and digital collections, and conducts research, educational outreach, and public programming. The Institute serves researchers, educators, and the general public through exhibitions, fellowships, podcasts, and publications.
- Industry
- Non-Profit Museum & Library (History of Science)
- Address
- 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
- Employees
- 51-200
Attack summary
Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the ransomware operator, indicating successful exfiltration. As a non-profit institution with staff, fellows, donors, researchers, and potentially sensitive archival records, the exposure of internal data at a published stage constitutes a significant breach even absent explicit PII-at-scale confirmation.NoEscape claims to have compromised the Science History Institute and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of organizational data. The specific volumes and categories of stolen data are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Organizational records
- Staff and fellow information
- Research and archival data
- Donor and supporter records
- Library and collections metadata
- Internal communications
What the group claims
The Science History Institute collects, preserves, interprets, and shares that past by exploring lesser-known and sometimes overlooked stories from the history of science a...
Sources
Source
Indexed 2 years agoThis page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.
