Was nicholsfleet.com hit by ransomware?

nicholsfleet.com was listed by the lockbit3 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 lockbit3 ransomware group?

lockbit3 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 nicholsfleet.com breach?

lockbit3 published data attributed to nicholsfleet.com (~2 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Nichols Fleet Equipment

listed as nicholsfleet.com · Claimed by Lockbit3 · listed 2 years ago

2 TB

Data size

22m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 12, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lockbit3
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Aug 12, 2024
Data size: 2 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nichols Fleet Equipment (NFE) is a manufacturer and customizer of specialized service trucks, aerial platforms, and fleet equipment based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Operating since 1991, the company designs and builds custom mechanic trucks, utility trucks, and specialized equipment for commercial fleets, with a new facility opened in 2024.

Industry: Commercial Vehicle Equipment Manufacturing & Customization
Address: 2805 Riverport Road, Chattanooga, TN 37406, United States
Founded: 1991

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 2 TB including financial records and proprietary technical/design data with public disclosure. The banking information and engineering drawings represent significant business and operational risk.

LockBit3 claims to have exfiltrated approximately 2 TB of private data from Nichols Fleet Equipment, including technical drawings, development files, and banking information.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

technical drawings
product development files
banking information
private company data

What the group claims

Nichols Fleet Equipment has been building the best service trucks in the industry. About 2 TB of private information. Drawings and developments. Banking information and more

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit3

LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, is a prominent ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in June 2022 as the third major iteration of the LockBit ransomware family, operating with primarily financial motivations and becoming one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally. The group is believed to operate from Russia or former Soviet states, functioning as a sophisticated RaaS platform that recruits affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. LockBit 3.0 employs multiple initial access vectors including exploitation of remote desktop protocols, vulnerable VPN appliances, and phishing campaigns, utilizing a fast-encrypting ransomware payload that can complete network-wide encryption in minutes while implementing triple extortion tactics that include data theft, encryption, and threats to leak stolen information on their dedicated leak site called "LockBit Black Blog." The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against thousands of organizations worldwide, with notable victims including major corporations and critical infrastructure entities across their primary target countries of the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, focusing heavily on business services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors. Despite law enforcement disruptions including Operation Cronos in February 2024 which temporarily seized their infrastructure and websites, LockBit has demonstrated resilience by quickly rebuilding their operations and continuing to recruit new affiliates and victims. The group has been linked to 2,016 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 29, 2022; most recent post December 5, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 12, 2024nicholsfleet.com listed by lockbit3on the group's public leak site

Data size: 2 TB

Other recent disclosures by lockbit3

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,080 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nicholsfleet.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit3 means nicholsfleet.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 lockbit3'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.