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NSW Government

Claimed by Nova · listed 8 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 15, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Australia
Sector
Public Sector
Listed on leak site
Jun 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NSW Government is the administrative government body for the state of New South Wales, Australia. It provides services across multiple critical sectors including Education, Health, Planning and Environment to the state's population.

Industry
Public Sector Administration
Address
Sydney, Australia

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive data from a major government entity responsible for health, education, and critical infrastructure. Government data at scale involving regulated sectors (health, education) constitutes critical severity regardless of specific data types disclosed.

Nova claims to have exfiltrated sensitive data from the NSW Government network. The group states it extracted 'sensitive data only' and has contacted the victim for ransom negotiation.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Unspecified sensitive government data
  • Data from Education sector
  • Data from Health sector
  • Data from Planning and Environment sector

What the group claims

NSW Government is the administrative government for the state of New South Wales, providing services including Education, Health and Planning and Environment. They are based in Sydney, Australia - we exf only sensitive data from network, contact us for deal, make sure that any leak can lead you to legal actions and trust lost, Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 163 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post June 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 15, 2026NSW Government listed by novaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 163 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, NSW Government is reported in Australia, a country with 185 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means NSW Government appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on nova's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.