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 December 14, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 31, 2023Lewis & Clark 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, Lewis & Clark College 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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Lewis & Clark College

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 31, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Mar 31, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts institution located in Portland, Oregon, comprising three schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and the School of Law. It is a residential campus with a global focus, combining classic liberal learning with interdisciplinary collaboration. The institution is consistently ranked among the nation's top liberal arts colleges.

Industry: Higher Education (Liberal Arts College & Law School)
Address: Portland, Oregon, United States
Employees: 501-1000
Founded: 1867

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating Vice Society has exfiltrated and released data from a higher education institution likely containing PII for students, faculty, and staff across undergraduate, law, and graduate programs — a significant volume of sensitive personal and academic records.

Vice Society claims to have attacked Lewis & Clark College and has published data, indicating exfiltration of institutional data; no ransom amount was stated and no specific data volume was disclosed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Faculty records
Staff personal information
Academic records
Financial aid data
Legal school records
Graduate school records
Institutional administrative data

What the group claims

Lewis & Clark is a private institution with a public conscience, a residential campus with global reach. Students and faculty throughout all three of Lewis & Clark's schools - the undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and the School of Law - pursue new ways of knowing by combining classic liberal learning with pioneering collaboration.

Sources

Victim sitelclark.edu/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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