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, 2022North Idaho College 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, North Idaho 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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North Idaho College

Claimed by Hiveleak · listed 3 years ago

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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

North Idaho College is a public community college located in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, founded in 1933. It offers associate degrees, professional-technical programs, and continuing education to students across the North Idaho region. The college serves thousands of students annually and is one of the primary higher-education institutions in the area.

Industry: Higher Education / Community College
Address: 1000 W Garden Ave, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814, United States
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1933

Attack summary

Severity: high — As a public educational institution, North Idaho College likely holds regulated PII including student records potentially protected under FERPA, employee personal data, and financial information. The disclosed status is data_published, indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of data, warranting a high severity rating. Insufficient detail to elevate to critical without confirmed scale of regulated data exposure.

The Hiveleak ransomware group claims an attack on North Idaho College with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating that exfiltrated data has been released. The specific data categories and volume are not detailed in the truncated post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Employee records
Financial data
Administrative documents

What the group claims

Founded in 1933, North Idaho College is a community college in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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