Disclosure context

About Vicesociety

Vicesociety is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through targeting critical infrastructure and public service organizations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undetermined by public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established RaaS model. Vicesociety primarily gains initial access through exploitation of public-facing applications and credential-based attacks, with documented cases showing they particularly focus on compromising remote access services and vulnerable web applications before deploying their ransomware payload across victim networks. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting educational institutions, government agencies, and healthcare organizations, with their 188 documented victims concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Spain, indicating a focus on English-speaking and Western European entities. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively detailed in major public threat intelligence reports from CISA or FBI advisories, the group's consistent targeting of critical sectors like education and healthcare has drawn attention from security researchers monitoring threats to essential services. Vicesociety remains active as of recent threat intelligence assessments, continuing their operations against similar target sectors with no documented law enforcement disruption or significant operational changes. The group has been linked to 188 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2021; most recent post December 14, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 30, 2023Okanagan College listed by Vicesocietyon 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, Okanagan College is reported in Canada, a country with 810 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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Okanagan College

Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 30, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Vicesociety
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Jan 30, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Okanagan College is a publicly funded post-secondary institution established in 1963, headquartered in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest college in British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland and Victoria, serving over 8,500 full-time students across four regional campuses, including approximately 1,000 international students from over 40 countries. The college offers programs in trades, business, health, technology, arts, and continuing education.

Industry: Post-Secondary Education
Address: 1000 KLO Road, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1Y 4X8, Canada
Employees: 501-1000
Founded: 1963

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Okanagan College holds regulated PII at scale for over 8,500 students including international students from 40+ countries, likely including academic records, financial aid data, and personal identification information. Data has been confirmed published by the group, indicating full exfiltration and public disclosure of sensitive educational and personal records.

Vice Society claims to have exfiltrated data from Okanagan College and has published the stolen data on their leak site. The disclosure status is marked as data_published, indicating sensitive institutional data has been released.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
International student information
Staff and faculty data
Financial records
Academic records and transcripts
Institutional administrative documents

What the group claims

Established in 1963, Okanagan College has since grown to be the largest college in British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland and Victoria with over 8,500 full-time students on four regional campuses and is the second-largest trade school in British Columbia. Approximately 1,000 international students from over 40 countries currently study at Okanagan College.

Sources

Victim siteokanagan.bc.ca/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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