Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsGreat Falls College Montana State University
listed as Great Falls College of Technology · Claimed by Royal · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
May 2, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Royal
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- United States
- Sector
- Education
- Listed on leak site
- May 2, 2023
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileGreat Falls College Montana State University is a public community college located in Great Falls, Montana, affiliated with the Montana State University System. It offers 20+ degree and certificate programs, continuing education and workforce training, with an average class size of 13 and a 17:1 student-to-faculty ratio. The college emphasizes affordability, flexible learning formats, and transfer pathways to four-year institutions within the Montana University System.
- Industry
- Public Community College Education
- Address
- Great Falls, Montana, United States
Attack summary
Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely threatened) and the group explicitly claims exfiltration of student PII and management data from a public educational institution, constituting confirmed exfiltration of regulated data (FERPA-protected student records) at a community college scale.The Royal ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated internal data from Great Falls College MSU, describing it as containing detailed information on college operations, student records, and management data, with the college's affiliation to a larger university system noted as adding broader value to the stolen information. The disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating the data has been released.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Student records
- Management data
- Internal operational information
What the group claims
Great Falls College Montana State University is a public community college in Great Falls, Montana. It is affiliated with the Montana State University System. Internal information of this college is interested as a detailed description of inner operations with lost of students and management's data and as a part of a bigger institution with obvious greater quantity of information. Not much but sweet!
Sources
Source
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