Was Contact Group hit by ransomware?

Contact Group was listed by the CMD ORGANIZATION ransomware operation (Australia), 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 CMD ORGANIZATION ransomware group?

CMD ORGANIZATION 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 Contact Group breach?

CMD ORGANIZATION published data attributed to Contact Group (~3 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Contact Group

Claimed by CMD ORGANIZATION · listed 7 days ago

3 TB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: CMD ORGANIZATION
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Building Services & Technology
Listed on leak site: Aug 11, 2026
Data size: 3 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Contact Group is a Tasmanian company with over 35 years of experience (founded ~1989) specializing in building services and multi-technology solutions. They provide electrical, communications, HVAC-R, infrastructure, fire, technology, security, plumbing, and facilities maintenance services to commercial, government, healthcare, and education sectors.

Industry: Building Services & Multi-Technology Solutions
Founded: 1989

Attack summary

Severity: high — 3 TB of exfiltrated data from a company serving government and healthcare sectors represents significant business data exposure. The scale and sector diversity (healthcare, government clients) elevates risk, though no specific proof files are visible in this excerpt.

CMD ORGANIZATION claims to have exfiltrated 3 TB of data from Contact Group. The group has published the victim listing with data size advertised but no specific proof files or screenshots are described in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal business records
Client data
Operational/technical documentation
Administrative records

What the group claims

Contact Group is a proudly Tasmanian company specializing in building services and multi-technology solutions. They offer award-winning services across various divisions, including electrical and communications, HVAC-R, infrastructure, fire, technology, security, plumbing, and facilities maintenance. Their intended clients span multiple sectors such as commercial, government, healthcare, education, and more. With over 35 years of experience, Contact Group is committed to excellence and sustainability in their operations.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

IT Security organization est. 2026.
##  [Stewart Belland & Associates Inc.](https://stewartbellandassociates.ca)
Stewart Belland & Associates Inc. (SBA) is a Civil Enforcement Agency licensed by the Province of Alberta. Operating since 1996, under the Alberta Civil Enforcement Act and Regulations, as a Civil Enforcement Agency we are legislated to enforce Civil Warrants. SBA retains the services of Provincial Licensed Bailiffs, who follow a compressive Rule of Conduct, in performing their functions throughout all jurisdictions within the Province of Alberta. 
We have 296 GB of downloaded data. 
Contact Group is a proudly Tasmanian company specializing in building services and multi-technology solutions. They offer award-winning services across various divisions, including electrical and communications, HVAC-R, infrastructure, fire, technology, security, plumbing, and facilities maintenance, ensuring a high-quality customer experience. Their intended clients span multiple sectors such as commercial, government, healthcare, education, and more. With over 35 years of experience, Contact Group is committed to excellence and sustainability in their operations. 
We have 3 TB of downloade…

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://cmdnkiqjije2tllr3biee2sjgj3i4robg2cbtilbnytdhh2wy3syrlyd.onion

Source

Indexed 7 days ago

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Disclosure context

About CMD ORGANIZATION

CMD ORGANIZATION is a ransomware group first observed in May 2026, with financial gain assessed as the primary motivation based on available indicators. Due to the extremely limited public reporting on this group, comprehensive technical attribution and operational details have not yet been documented by major threat intelligence vendors or government agencies such as CISA or the FBI. Based on available data, CMD ORGANIZATION has recorded a single known victim, with targeting concentrated in the United States and focused on the engineering sector, suggesting either a nascent operation in its early stages or a highly selective targeting methodology. No publicly documented information is currently available regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, extortion tactics, tooling, or affiliations with other known threat actors or ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems. No notable high-profile campaigns, law enforcement actions, or confirmed rebranding activity has been publicly attributed to this group at this time. CMD ORGANIZATION should be considered an emerging or low-visibility threat actor warranting continued monitoring as additional victims or technical indicators may surface and enable more comprehensive profiling by the security research community. The group has been linked to 18 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2026; most recent post August 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 11, 2026Contact Group listed by CMD ORGANIZATIONon the group's public leak site

Data size: 3 TB

Other recent disclosures by CMD ORGANIZATION

CMD ORGANIZATION has been linked to 18 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full CMD ORGANIZATION dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Building Services & Technology sector. Geographically, Contact Group is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by CMD ORGANIZATION means Contact Group 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 CMD ORGANIZATION'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.