Was labor force Inc hit by ransomware?

labor force Inc was listed by the NoEscape ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the NoEscape ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the labor force Inc breach?

NoEscape published data attributed to labor force Inc. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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labor force Inc

Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

32m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 3, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Nov 3, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Labor Force® is a full-service employment and staffing agency based in Texas, operating since 1970. The company provides temporary and temp-to-hire staffing solutions to clients across industrial and warehouse sectors, including pre-employment drug screening and risk management services. It places workers in roles such as machine operators, quality inspectors, and mill hands, primarily in the greater Houston/Baytown, TX area.

Industry: Employment & Staffing Services
Address: Baytown, TX area / Houston, TX area (multiple job sites reference 77049 and 77041 ZIP codes; no single HQ address stated)
Founded: 1970

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the ransomware group. As a staffing agency, Labor Force Inc holds substantial PII for both employees and client companies, including drug screening and risk management records, making exfiltration of this data a significant privacy and regulatory concern even without an explicit data-size figure.

NoEscape claims to have attacked Labor Force Inc, with the disclosure status recorded as 'data_published', indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. The specific categories of data exposed are not detailed in the leak post, but as a staffing agency, records likely include employee PII and client business information.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personally identifiable information (PII)
Client business records
Employment and staffing records
Drug screening records
Payroll/financial records (probable)
Worker compensation records (probable)

What the group claims

Labor Force® is an employment and staffing agency that offers clients solutions to temporary and temp-to-hire employment requirements. Since 1970, we have stood behind our ...

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

November 3, 2023labor force Inc 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, labor force Inc 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 labor force Inc 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.