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Canadian Nurses Association

Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

38m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 22, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Snatch
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Non-Profit
Listed on leak site
May 22, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) is a national non-profit organization representing approximately 460,000 regulated nurses across all 13 Canadian provinces and territories. Founded in 1908 and headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, it is the sole national focal point for the nursing profession in Canada. CNA leads health policy development, professional certification, and advocacy at the national level.

Industry
Non-Profit Professional Nursing Association
Address
Suite M209, 1554 Carling Ave, Ottawa ON K1Z 7M4, Canada
Employees
51-200
Founded
1908

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The CNA holds personal and professional data on up to 460,000 regulated nurses across Canada, constituting PII at significant scale. Data has been published (data_published status), confirming exfiltration of data from a national health-sector professional body, which likely includes regulated PII and health-profession credentials.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked the Canadian Nurses Association and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of organizational data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Health policy documents
  • Member/nurse registration data
  • Organizational internal records
  • Personal information of regulated nurses
  • Administrative and financial records

What the group claims

CNA is a powerhouse nursing organization leading the development of health policy across Canada. Representing Canada's 460,000 regulated nurses, across all 13 provinces and territories, we're the only focal point for the profession on the national stage — and have been since 1908.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 22, 2023Canadian Nurses Association listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 Non-Profit sector, which has 45 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Canadian Nurses Association is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Canadian Nurses Association 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 Snatch'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.