Was McNish Company hit by ransomware?

McNish Company was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (Canada) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the safepay ransomware group?

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McNish Company

Claimed by Safepay · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 9, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Canada
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Sep 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

McNish Company is a construction firm headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, founded in 1978 by William and Wallace McNish. The company has developed technology products, infrastructure, consulting, maintenance, and technical services.

Industry: Construction
Address: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Founded: 1978

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a listing/announcement with no proof files, screenshots, or data samples provided. No operational impact or specific data exposure is detailed.

SafePay ransomware group claims to have attacked McNish Company. No specific details are provided in the leak post regarding whether data was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both, nor what data categories are at stake.

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What the group claims

The company is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, and was founded in 1978 by William and Wallace McNish.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

# SafePay ransomware has never provided and does not provide the RaaS
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Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 763 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post September 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 9, 2026McNish Company listed by safepay on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 763 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, McNish Company is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means McNish Company appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on safepay'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.