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Cedar Crest College

Claimed by Nightspire · listed 15 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 14, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nightspire
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Jul 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cedar Crest College is a primarily women's liberal arts college in the United States offering 40+ undergraduate degree programs, graduate programs (including nursing, master's, and doctoral degrees), and adult education options. The institution emphasizes inclusive education and community engagement.

Industry
Higher Education - Liberal Arts College

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor (disclosed_status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, no specific data inventory, proof count, or data sensitivity details are provided in the truncated leak post, preventing assessment of whether regulated/sensitive data at scale was exposed.

The nightspire group claims to have attacked Cedar Crest College and published data; however, the specific nature of the breach (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and data types are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

Data is not available now.

Sources

Source

Indexed 15 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 315 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: NIGHT SPIRE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 14, 2026Cedar Crest College listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nightspire

nightspire has been linked to 315 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 Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cedar Crest College is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nightspire means Cedar Crest College 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 nightspire'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.