Was nwcsb.com hit by ransomware?

nwcsb.com was listed by the Blacksuit 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 Blacksuit ransomware group?

Blacksuit 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 nwcsb.com breach?

Blacksuit published data attributed to nwcsb.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Northwestern Community Services Board

listed as nwcsb.com · Claimed by Blacksuit · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 24, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacksuit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Aug 24, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Northwestern Community Services Board (NWCSB) is a behavioral health agency providing mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and developmental disability services to individuals and families across northwestern Virginia, including Winchester and five surrounding counties. They offer person-centered, community-based care programs.

Industry: Mental Health & Behavioral Health Services
Address: Winchester, Virginia; serving Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Shenandoah, and Page Counties

Attack summary

Severity: high — NWCSB is a healthcare provider handling sensitive mental health, substance use, and developmental disability records. Confirmed data publication of such records involving vulnerable populations (children, mental health patients) constitutes high-severity exposure of regulated health information (HIPAA-protected), even without explicit proof counts or data size specifications in the post.

Blacksuit claims to have attacked NWCSB and published data from the organization. The group's post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what types of data are at stake.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient/client health records
Mental health and behavioral data
Substance use treatment information
Developmental disability service records

What the group claims

Northwestern Community Services Board (nwcsb.com) is a mental health organization dedicated to providing comprehensive behavioral health, developmental disability, and substance use services. They serve individuals and families in the northwestern region, aiming to enhance the quality of life through accessible, person-centered care and community-based support programs.

Sources

Victim sitenwcsb.com
Leak posthttp://weg7sdx54bevnvulapqu6bpzwztryeflq3s23tegbmnhkbpqz637f2yd.onion/?id=83kqZGVpeNE5GFa9

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blacksuit

Blacksuit is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with 184 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a traditional RaaS model. Blacksuit primarily targets organizations through common initial access vectors and employs standard ransomware deployment techniques, though detailed technical analysis of their specific encryption methods and whether they consistently employ double extortion tactics has not been widely published by major security firms. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting business services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors, with their victims predominantly located in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as Spain and Germany. As of current reporting, Blacksuit remains an active ransomware operation with no publicly documented law enforcement disruptions or significant rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 184 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post June 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: black suit.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 24, 2024nwcsb.com listed by Blacksuiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blacksuit

Blacksuit has been linked to 184 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,603 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nwcsb.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blacksuit means nwcsb.com 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 Blacksuit'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.