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Mount Royal University

Claimed by Cmdorganization · listed 8 days ago

7d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 7, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Cmdorganization
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Jul 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mount Royal University is a public university established in 1910 and located in Calgary, Canada. It offers undergraduate programs across arts, communication, health & physical education, interior design, nursing, and science.

Industry
Higher Education
Address
Calgary, Canada
Founded
1910

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 10TB+ from an educational institution likely containing student PII, academic records, and sensitive institutional data. Scale and sensitivity of university data warrants high severity despite lack of specific proof artifacts mentioned.

The threat actor claims to have exfiltrated more than 10TB of data from Mount Royal University. No specific details on data types or encryption status are provided in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • University records
  • Student data
  • Faculty information
  • Administrative files

What the group claims

The university was established in 1910. Mount Royal University is a public university in Calgary, Canada. Its programs include bachelor of arts, bachelor of communication, bachelor of health & physical education, bachelor of interior design, bachelor of nursing, and bachelor of science.More than 10TB of data!!!

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 days ago

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Disclosure context

About cmdorganization

Based on the limited available information, cmdorganization is an obscure ransomware group first observed in May 2026 with only three documented victims to date, suggesting either a newly emerged threat actor or a small-scale operation with primarily financial motivations. The group's targeting pattern shows a geographic focus on Canada, the United States, and Italy, with a sectoral preference for healthcare and construction industries, though the limited victim count makes it difficult to establish definitive targeting criteria. Due to the recent emergence and low victim count, there is insufficient publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, or operational structure. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported for this group, likely due to their limited operational scope and recent emergence. Current intelligence suggests the group remains active but operates at a relatively small scale compared to established ransomware families. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 2, 2026; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: cmd organization.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 7, 2026Mount Royal University listed by cmdorganizationon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by cmdorganization

cmdorganization has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full cmdorganization dossier →

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, Mount Royal University is reported in Canada, a country with 314 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by cmdorganization means Mount Royal University 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on cmdorganization'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.