Was nbccministries.org hit by ransomware?

nbccministries.org was listed by the INC Ransom 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 INC Ransom ransomware group?

INC Ransom 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 nbccministries.org breach?

INC Ransom published data attributed to nbccministries.org. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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New Beginnings Church

listed as nbccministries.org · Claimed by INC Ransom · listed 5 months ago

$5M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: INC Ransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Jan 27, 2026
Ransom demanded: $5M
Estimated revenue: $5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

New Beginnings Church is a Christian congregation located in Matthews, North Carolina. The church offers multiple weekly worship services both in-person and online, along with ministries spanning children and youth, women, men, marriage, and pastoral care. It is a small organization with an estimated 5–25 staff and under $5M in revenue.

Industry: Religious Organizations
Address: 7027 Stillwell Road, Matthews, NC 28105
Employees: 5-25

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration. Although the organization is small, publication of internal records from a religious organization likely includes PII of congregation members and staff, and the $5M ransom demand suggests meaningful data volume was claimed.

INC Ransom claims to have attacked New Beginnings Church and has published data, with a stated ransom demand of $5 million. The group asserts exfiltration of organizational data, though no specific data size was disclosed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee records
Financial data
Congregation/membership information
Organizational documents

What the group claims

New Beginnings Church is a company that operates in the Religious Organizations industry. It employs 5to9 people and has under500K of revenue. The company is headquartered in Matthews, North Carolina. Employees: 25 Revenue: $5 Million Industry: Organizations Phone Number: (704) 567-2900

Sources

Victim sitenbccministries.org

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About INC Ransom

INC Ransom is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021 and has since compromised 832 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal Ransomware-as-a-Service model. While detailed attack methodologies for INC Ransom have not been extensively documented by major security firms, their victim distribution indicates they employ broad-spectrum targeting approaches that have successfully penetrated healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting English-speaking countries, with the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom representing their primary victim demographics, alongside significant activity in Germany and Australia. Notable campaigns or high-profile attacks by INC Ransom have not been prominently featured in major threat intelligence publications from CISA, FBI, or leading security researchers, suggesting they may operate with a lower public profile despite their substantial victim count. INC Ransom remains active as of current intelligence assessments, with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 853 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post June 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 27, 2026nbccministries.org listed by INC Ransomon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $5M

Other recent disclosures by INC Ransom

INC Ransom has been linked to 853 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 Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nbccministries.org is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by INC Ransom means nbccministries.org 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on INC Ransom'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.