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The Town of Hinton

listed as www.hinton.ca · Claimed by RansomHub · listed 1 year ago

16m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 6, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
RansomHub
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
Mar 6, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Town of Hinton is a municipal government in Alberta, Canada, responsible for providing civic services, recreation, development, and administrative functions to residents. It operates as a local public sector entity serving the Hinton community.

Industry
Local Government & Public Administration
Address
Hinton, Alberta, Canada

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Public sector entity targeted with data published status, but no proof files, specific data categories, or operational impact details are documented in the available post. Potential exposure of municipal records and resident data warrants medium severity pending verification.

RansomHub claims to have compromised The Town of Hinton's systems. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what categories of data are at risk.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

www.hinton.ca is the website for The Town of Hinton, a community located in the province of Alberta, Canada. The website provides residents and visitors with a wide range of information including municipal services, recreation opportunities, local news, development plans and various administrative details. It serves as the digital platform for the local government, ensuring transparency and ease of access.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About RansomHub

RansomHub is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in February 2024 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat, compromising over 1,000 victims within its first year of operation. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, though their specific country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain under investigation by security researchers. RansomHub employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victims' systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met, with their attacks primarily targeting organizations in the United States, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and Italy. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors, suggesting they prioritize targets with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase the likelihood of ransom payment. Despite their recent emergence, RansomHub has quickly gained notoriety for their aggressive targeting approach and high victim count, with security agencies including CISA and FBI monitoring their activities as part of ongoing ransomware threat assessments. As of current reporting, RansomHub remains active and continues to recruit affiliates for their RaaS operation while expanding their victim base across multiple industries and geographic regions. The group has been linked to 1,032 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 10, 2024; most recent post March 31, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HUB.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 6, 2025www.hinton.ca listed by RansomHubon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by RansomHub

RansomHub has been linked to 1,032 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 Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.hinton.ca is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by RansomHub means www.hinton.ca 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 RansomHub'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.