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Waterloo Media

Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 26, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
NoEscape
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Media
Listed on leak site
Sep 26, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Waterloo Media is an Austin, Texas-based media and marketing company offering radio broadcasting, digital and social media services, and live events. The company operates a diverse group of radio stations with live and local content and claims the largest combined audience in Austin. It also produces heritage community events such as Blues on the Green and provides custom marketing strategies for local and regional businesses.

Industry
Media, Marketing & Advertising
Address
Austin, Texas, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration. The company handles client business data for multiple regional companies as well as internal operational data, representing significant business data exposure.

NoEscape claims to have attacked Waterloo Media and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of company and potentially client data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Marketing plans and strategy documents
  • Client business data
  • Internal company files
  • Potentially employee records

What the group claims

Waterloo Media is connected to the Austin community with a reach that is unparalleled. We create marketing plans that deliver results for our clients and use our local foot...

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

  • September 26, 2023Waterloo Media 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 Media sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Waterloo Media 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 Waterloo Media 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.