Disclosure context

About hive

Hive is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model to maximize their criminal enterprise's reach and profitability. The group is suspected to have origins in Eastern Europe based on their operational patterns and linguistic indicators, though definitive attribution remains unclear, and they operate independently while recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks on their behalf. Hive primarily gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses a combination of RSA and AES encryption algorithms while simultaneously exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption to enable double extortion tactics where they threaten to publish stolen information if ransom demands are not met. The group has targeted over 208 victims globally with a particular focus on manufacturing companies, business services, information technology firms, healthcare services, and internet and telecommunication services, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Indonesia, and China, including notable attacks against healthcare systems and critical infrastructure that drew significant attention from law enforcement agencies. In January 2023, the FBI announced the successful disruption of Hive's operations, seizing their dark web leak sites and decryption keys, effectively dismantling the group's infrastructure and providing free decryption tools to victims. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 20, 2022North Idaho College listed by hiveon 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, North Idaho College is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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North Idaho College

Claimed by hive · listed 3 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 20, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: hive
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

North Idaho College is a public community college located in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, founded in 1933. It offers associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training programs to students across the North Idaho region. The college serves thousands of students annually and operates as a key educational institution in the Idaho Panhandle area.

Industry: Higher Education (Community College)
Address: 1000 W Garden Ave, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814, United States
Employees: 501-1000
Founded: 1933

Attack summary

Severity: high — As a public educational institution, North Idaho College likely holds significant volumes of student PII, financial aid records, and staff data. The disclosed status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public release of data, elevating severity beyond medium despite limited detail in the leak post.

The Hive ransomware group claims to have attacked North Idaho College, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. The post does not specify exact data types or volumes exfiltrated, but the published status suggests confirmed data exfiltration.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Employee records
Financial data
Administrative documents

What the group claims

Founded in 1933, North Idaho College is a community college in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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