Brookview Financial
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Full breach record for Brookview Financial →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group DragonForce 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
(data of many thousands of customers, including credit reports, SSNs, addresses, etc.) Brookview Financial is a boutique private lender specializing in quick-close financing solutions for real estate projects. Established in 1992, the company has served as a trusted capital partner for thousands of real estate investors across the nation. They offer a range of loan programs, including commercial bridge loans, fix & flip loans, and special situation financing, with amounts ranging from $75,000 to over $50 million. Known for their personal service and flexible terms, Brookview can close deals in as little as 7 days.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 24, 2026
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
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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.
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- discovery date
- materiality
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
dragonforce
According to ransomware.live, DragonForce is a major ransomware-as-a-service operation first observed in August 2023 that launched a formal affiliate program offering 80% revenue share, then rebranded as a "ransomware cartel" in 2025, gaining notoriety for high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods.