Was nrcs.net hit by ransomware?

nrcs.net was listed by the Blacksuit ransomware operation (Switzerland), 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 Blacksuit ransomware group?

Blacksuit 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 nrcs.net breach?

Blacksuit published data attributed to nrcs.net. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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North Ridgeville City School District

listed as nrcs.net · Claimed by Blacksuit · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 25, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacksuit
Status: Data leaked
Country: Switzerland
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Oct 25, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

North Ridgeville City School District (NRCS) is a public K-12 school district located in North Ridgeville, Ohio. The district operates multiple schools serving students from preschool through grade 12, offering standard curricula, special education services, and various support programs.

Industry: Public Education / K-12 School District
Address: North Ridgeville, Ohio, USA

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed compromise of a public K-12 school district with access to sensitive student and employee records, including FERPA-protected educational data, health information, and personally identifiable information at scale. High operational and privacy impact.

Blacksuit claims to have compromised nrcs.net. The group's post describes an Italian hospitality/retail software company, but the actual victim appears to be a U.S. public school district—indicating either domain confusion, misdirection in the leak post, or potential name spoofing by the attacker.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Employee personal information
Financial records
Health and immunization data
Special education records
Enrollment information

What the group claims

NRCS.net is an Italian-based company specializing in the development and provision of software solutions for the hospitality and retail sectors. It offers a range of services, including point-of-sale systems, management software, and digital payment solutions. The company focuses on enhancing operational efficiency and customer experience through innovative technology tailored to client needs.

Sources

Victim sitenrcs.net
Leak posthttp://weg7sdx54bevnvulapqu6bpzwztryeflq3s23tegbmnhkbpqz637f2yd.onion/?id=wBmuWa69XOkNUEY7

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blacksuit

Blacksuit is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, quickly establishing itself as a significant threat with 184 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a traditional RaaS model. Blacksuit primarily targets organizations through common initial access vectors and employs standard ransomware deployment techniques, though detailed technical analysis of their specific encryption methods and whether they consistently employ double extortion tactics has not been widely published by major security firms. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting business services, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors, with their victims predominantly located in English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as Spain and Germany. As of current reporting, Blacksuit remains an active ransomware operation with no publicly documented law enforcement disruptions or significant rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 184 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post June 2, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: black suit.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 25, 2024nrcs.net listed by Blacksuiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blacksuit

Blacksuit has been linked to 184 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Blacksuit dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,563 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, nrcs.net is reported in Switzerland, a country with 154 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blacksuit means nrcs.net 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, NCSC-CH (Switzerland), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Blacksuit'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.