Influence Communication
bd_742a7d85dd4d5e8c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Influence Communication →2 incidents on fileThreat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Noescape on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Founded in 2001, Influence Communication is the largest 100% Quebec news broker. For 18 years, public and parapublic organizations at various levels of government, large Quebec, Canadian and foreign companies as well as ...
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 13, 2023
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
Not assessable
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
Source ceiling
- actor name
- victim claim
- ransom/leak status
- discovery date
- materiality
- notification
- affected count
- confirmed data types
- compliance clock
The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
noescape
According to ransomware.live, NoEscape was a RaaS operation active from May to December 2023 believed to be a rebrand of the defunct Avaddon ransomware, targeting professional services, manufacturing, and healthcare with triple-extortion capabilities (encryption, data theft, and optional DDoS), before abruptly shutting down in an apparent exit scam.