Disclosure context

About Vicesociety

Vicesociety is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through targeting critical infrastructure and public service organizations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undetermined by public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established RaaS model. Vicesociety primarily gains initial access through exploitation of public-facing applications and credential-based attacks, with documented cases showing they particularly focus on compromising remote access services and vulnerable web applications before deploying their ransomware payload across victim networks. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting educational institutions, government agencies, and healthcare organizations, with their 188 documented victims concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Spain, indicating a focus on English-speaking and Western European entities. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively detailed in major public threat intelligence reports from CISA or FBI advisories, the group's consistent targeting of critical sectors like education and healthcare has drawn attention from security researchers monitoring threats to essential services. Vicesociety remains active as of recent threat intelligence assessments, continuing their operations against similar target sectors with no documented law enforcement disruption or significant operational changes. The group has been linked to 188 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2021; most recent post June 20, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 9, 2023Mount Saint Mary College listed by Vicesocietyon 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, Mount Saint Mary College is reported in DM.

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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Mount Saint Mary College

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

39m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 9, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: DM
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Feb 9, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mount Saint Mary College is a private Catholic liberal arts college located in Newburgh, New York, founded in 1959 by the Dominican Sisters. The college enrolls more than 2,700 students across over 50 undergraduate programs and three graduate degree programs, with a 60-acre campus overlooking the Hudson River. It offers programs through its Schools of Business, Arts Sciences and Education, and Nursing.

Industry: Higher Education (Private Liberal Arts College)
Address: 330 Powell Ave, Newburgh, NY 12550
Founded: 1959

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by Vice Society, indicating confirmed exfiltration from an educational institution. Student PII, health/nursing program records, and financial aid data are likely involved, constituting significant regulated and sensitive data exposure at a college serving 2,700+ students.

Vice Society claims to have attacked Mount Saint Mary College and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of college data; no specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Faculty and staff records
Academic program data
Admissions and enrollment data
Financial aid records
Health/nursing program records
Institutional administrative data

What the group claims

Mount Saint Mary College is a private Catholic college in Newburgh, New York. It was founded in 1959 by the Dominican Sisters. The campus overlooks the Hudson River, halfway between New York City and Albany. More than 2,700 men and women are enrolled in over 50 undergraduate programs and three graduate degree programs.

Sources

Victim sitemsmc.edu/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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