Northwest Micro Systems
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Full breach record for Northwest Micro Systems →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen 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
nwmicro.com Northwest Micro Systems, formally Northwest Micro Inc., is a private IT services and software company founded in 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia, serving small businesses with managed IT, cloud backup, email, CRM and custom .NET development. Led by founder and owner Leo Zhadanovsky, it has around 11 employees and steady revenue of roughly 5 million dollars. Its unique model offers affordable one-time products like the One 2 One email server and Speed To Success CRM for about 100 dollars with lifetime updates and support. The company positions itself as the anti-corporate alternative to Oracle and Microsoft, focused on keeping small business clients for life. Core strengths are 28 years of market presence, a loyal SMB client base and a low-overhead operation. Its tech stack centers on Microsoft 365, SQL Server and .NET with a mix of SaaS and on-premise tools.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 26, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
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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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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.