Was importservices.co.uk hit by ransomware?

importservices.co.uk was listed by the Dragonforce ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 Dragonforce ransomware group?

Dragonforce 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 importservices.co.uk breach?

Dragonforce published data attributed to importservices.co.uk. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Import Services Ltd

listed as importservices.co.uk · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 4, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Mar 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Import Services Ltd (importservices.co.uk) is a UK-based freight forwarding and customs clearance company specialising in import logistics services. The company assists businesses with the movement of goods into the United Kingdom, handling customs documentation and compliance. No further specific details about scale or headquarters address are available from the provided sources.

Industry: Freight Forwarding & Customs Clearance

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration from a logistics/freight-forwarding company that likely handles commercial shipping records, client PII, customs documentation, and potentially financial data. Publication of data elevates this beyond medium severity even absent a detailed inventory.

Dragonforce claims to have exfiltrated data from importservices.co.uk and has published the data (disclosed status: data_published). The specific categories of data exfiltrated are not enumerated in the truncated leak post, which appears to be a feed of multiple victims rather than a dedicated entry for this company.

high

What the group claims

Import Services Ltd (importservices.co.uk) is a Southampton-based UK logistics company specializing in retail supply chain services, contract warehousing, freight forwarding, order fulfillment, and port-centric distribution for imports and domestic operations. breched with love 3

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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{"data":{"count":483,"publications":[{"uuid":"b008b8b7-0e47-416f-adcd-2313d8136de4","created_at":"2026-05-08T20:56:13.122134Z","name":"CF Evans Construction","website":"www.cfevans.com","address":"125 Regional Pkwy Ste 200, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 29118, United States","description":"A recognized leader in the multi-family housing construction industry, CF Evans Construction provides a product for developers. The company has thrived amid six decades.\nThe data of this company includes:\n    Corporate correspondence of senior executives\n    Financial documents\n    HR documents\n    Accounting documents\n    Certificates, contracts, passwords, databases, and much more.","weight":4775795351552,"is_timer_publication_stopped":false,"timer_publication":"2026-05-22T07:48:00Z","try_again":false,"tags":[],"logo_uuid":"f4e582dd-6562-4590-bac8-2b9e5c564853","is_transfering":false},{"uuid":"3827192f-9bb3-490c-9c1c-d28b382510cd","created_at":"2026-05-08T17:53:24.736605Z","name":"CMC Expertise Comptable","website":"cmcexpertise.fr","address":"32 Rue De La Clairière, Fort-de-France,","description":"CMC Expertise Comptable is a certified accounting firm located in Martinique, dedicated t…

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Dragonforce

Dragonforce is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim selection. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their rapid accumulation of 439 documented victims suggests either sophisticated capabilities or possible connections to existing ransomware infrastructure. Based on their targeting patterns across diverse sectors including manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction, Dragonforce appears to employ opportunistic attack methodologies, though specific initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been publicly detailed by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Italy representing their most frequent victim locations, suggesting possible language capabilities or geographic operational preferences. As of current reporting, Dragonforce appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim acquisition, though the lack of detailed public analysis from major threat intelligence organizations indicates either operational security measures that have limited researcher visibility or that the group has not yet conducted sufficiently high-profile attacks to warrant extensive public documentation by CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group has been linked to 596 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 4, 2026importservices.co.uk listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 847 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, importservices.co.uk is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means importservices.co.uk 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 Dragonforce'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.