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Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

listed as iima.ac.in · Claimed by Cryp70N1C0D3 · listed 5 years ago

55m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 18, 2021
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Cryp70N1C0D3
Status
Data leaked
Country
India
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Dec 18, 2021

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) is one of India's premier public business schools, established in 1961. It offers postgraduate, doctoral, and executive education programmes in management and related disciplines. IIMA is globally ranked and is an institution of national importance under the IIM Act, 2017.

Industry
Higher Education & Management Research
Address
Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015, India
Employees
501-1000
Founded
1961

Attack summary

Severity: high — IIMA is a prominent public institution of national importance likely holding significant volumes of PII (student, faculty, staff records), academic and research data, and administrative documents. The disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration and release, which elevates severity; however, the absence of a captured leak post and data size details prevents a 'critical' classification.

The group Cryp70N1C0D3 claims to have attacked iima.ac.in and the disclosure status is listed as data_published, suggesting exfiltration and publication of data; however, no leak post details or data size were captured to confirm the specific nature or scope of the data released.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Student records
  • Faculty and staff information
  • Academic data
  • Administrative documents
  • Research data

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Cryp70N1C0D3

Cryp70N1C0D3 is a relatively obscure ransomware group that emerged in December 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through ransomware operations. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their targeting patterns suggest potential familiarity with victims in India, the United States, and Turkey. Based on available data, Cryp70N1C0D3 has maintained a limited operational scope with only 11 documented victims across their known period of activity, indicating either a small-scale operation or highly selective targeting approach. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tactics, techniques, and procedures have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, likely due to their relatively low profile compared to more prominent ransomware families. No significant high-profile attacks, major corporate victims, or substantial law enforcement actions have been publicly reported in connection with this group. Current intelligence suggests limited ongoing activity, though the group's present operational status remains unclear due to insufficient public reporting and analysis from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 11 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 18, 2021. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 18, 2021iima.ac.in listed by Cryp70N1C0D3on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Cryp70N1C0D3

Cryp70N1C0D3 has been linked to 11 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 Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, iima.ac.in is reported in India, a country with 381 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cryp70N1C0D3 means iima.ac.in 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, CERT-In (India), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Cryp70N1C0D3'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.