Was NFM Lending hit by ransomware?

NFM Lending was listed by the Interlock ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Interlock ransomware group?

Interlock is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the NFM Lending breach?

Interlock published data attributed to NFM Lending. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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NFM Lending

Claimed by Interlock · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 7, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Interlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NFM Lending is a national mortgage lender that originated approximately $7.15 billion in mortgages over a 12-month period, serving over 1 million clients through its Encompass loan origination platform.

Industry: Mortgage Lending
Employees: 1000

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed large-scale exfiltration of highly regulated financial PII (SSNs, bank accounts, credit data) affecting 1M+ customers; violation of GLBA/FCRA; exposure of proprietary business data and employee records; data size (2.5 TB) and scope indicate systematic access to core lending infrastructure.

The interlock group claims to have exfiltrated over 2.5 TB of sensitive data including customer PII (names, Social Security numbers, bank accounts, credit information, addresses, contact details), loan details, proprietary pricing and profit formulas, tax records, and employee personal information from NFM Lending and its Encompass database.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer names and Social Security numbers
Bank account information
Credit information and loan terms
Customer addresses and contact details
Borrower and loan identifiers
Loan pricing data
Itemized loan expense reports
Proprietary pricing and profit formulas
Encompass database records (1M+ clients)
Tax forms database
Employee personal information

What the group claims

NFM Lending is a national mortgage lender with over 1,000 employees that originated approximately $7.15 billion in mortgages in the past 12 months. The data breach exposed over 2.5 TB of sensitive personal customer information (names, Social Security numbers, bank accounts, credit information, loan terms, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, borrower and loan identifiers, loan pricing, and itemized loan expense reports), as well as proprietary pricing/profit formulas, in violation of federal GLBA/FCRA, state privacy laws, and the CFPB's data breach reporting rules. You also have access to data from the Encompass database, which contains information on more than 1 million clients, as well as internal databases, an extensive database of tax forms, and employees' personal information.

Sources

Victim sitehttps:nfmlending.com
Leak posthttp://gpotnbhakwdnrcojjnr4msl3sl64a4gv2n4yizvmbsceiazpqq23s5yd.onion/index.php?p=

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Interlock

Interlock is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in October 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear given their recent emergence, with insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as an independent entity or under a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or encryption techniques, as major cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have not yet published comprehensive technical analyses of their operations. Since beginning operations, Interlock has reportedly compromised approximately 100 victims, with their targeting primarily focused on organizations in English-speaking countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as Italy, while demonstrating a preference for attacking education, manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector entities. The group remains active as of late 2024, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from established security research organizations have not yet been published due to the group's recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 124 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 13, 2024; most recent post September 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 7, 2026NFM Lending listed by Interlock on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Interlock

Interlock has been linked to 124 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,195 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, NFM Lending is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Interlock means NFM Lending 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Interlock'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.