Disclosure context

About Qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,857 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 27, 2026ITWAL listed by Qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ITWAL is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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ITWAL Limited

listed as ITWAL · Claimed by Qilin · listed 2 months ago

54d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ITWAL Limited is Canada's only national network providing suppliers with distribution, selling, marketing, and information solutions to retail and foodservice operators. It operates as a unified group supporting national brand manufacturers and member distributors across thousands of retail and foodservice products. Effective January 1, 2022, ITWAL joined Balpex Inc. for its non-food business programs, and all ITWAL members became part of Balpex.

Industry: Wholesale Distribution & Marketing Network (Food & Foodservice)

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the ransomware group. ITWAL operates a national distribution and marketing network with data spanning hundreds of suppliers and thousands of retail/foodservice accounts, meaning exfiltrated data likely includes significant business, financial, and supplier/member records.

Qilin claims to have published data belonging to ITWAL Limited, with the disclosure status listed as 'data_published'. The leak post does not specify an explicit data volume or file count for this victim, but the data is indicated as published.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Published company data (type unspecified)

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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