Disclosure context

About Hiveleak

Hiveleak is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, conducting targeted attacks primarily against organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain, and Germany with a focus on manufacturing, business services, information technology, healthcare, and education sectors. Limited public documentation exists regarding this group's specific country of origin or affiliations with other ransomware operations, though their targeting patterns and operational timeline suggest they operate as part of the broader ransomware ecosystem that proliferated during the 2021-2022 period. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities remain largely undocumented in major threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or leading security research firms, though their victim count of 208 organizations indicates sustained operational capability over their known active period. Notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting, suggesting the group may have maintained a lower profile compared to major ransomware operations like Conti or LockBit during the same timeframe. The current operational status of Hiveleak remains unclear based on available public intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post May 26, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 20, 2022Innovative Education Management listed by Hiveleakon 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, Innovative Education Management 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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Innovative Education Management

Claimed by Hiveleak · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 20, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Hiveleak
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Innovative Education Management (IEM) is a California-based organization that has been developing and operating charter schools since 1998. The company focuses on the management and administration of charter school institutions within California. No further operational details are available from public site content.

Industry: Charter School Management & Operations
Address: California, United States
Founded: 1998

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosed status is 'data_published', meaning data has been publicly released by the threat actor. An educational organization managing charter schools likely holds student PII, family records, and staff data, which are regulated sensitive categories; publication of such data elevates severity to high even absent explicit inventory details.

Hiveleak claims a successful attack on Innovative Education Management, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. The post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it detail the volume or type of data involved.

high

What the group claims

Innovative Education Management (IEM) has been successfully developing and operating California charter schools since 1998

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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