Traditional risk scoring tools often miss the most critical exposure signals—those already circulating in attacker communities. In this case study, a small but security-forward educational services company shares how HackNotice’s Third Party Monitoring helped them identify high-risk vendors through stolen credentials, ransomware incidents, and infostealer activity on the dark web. By complementing their existing Security Ratings Service with attacker-centric intelligence, the company gained better visibility, broader coverage, and more actionable insights across their vendor ecosystem.