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NWIMS IT Group

bd_33c32ae3a77fba39 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 16, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for NWIMS IT Group

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.

Group activity: TechnologyDiscovered: 2026-01-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

NWIMS IT Group provides a complete service for all your technology needs including computer repair and upgrade services for Home and Small Business Users. That it's not always an option to take your equipment in for repair or assistance. Therefore they offer a unique service where we will arrange a visit to you at your Home and/or office, where they can fix the problems in your own environment and answer any questions that you may have. At times a site visit will not be necessary and assistance can be given remotely. Here is a summary of the some of the services they offer: Internet and networks installed Hardware and Software upgrades Communications : Mobile Phones, Broadband, VOIP Phone systems Lost file and crash recovery, as well as system backup Virus, Trojan and Malware removal Hardware and Software Sales Security and Internet Filtering Office Virtualization Network Support Hardware upgrades and installations Assistance with other computer problems

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 16, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

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

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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2022-10-20

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.

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