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

November 30, 2023Science History Institute 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, Science History Institute 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

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 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.

high

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 ago

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