Was Lowerys hit by ransomware?

Lowerys was listed by the Storm ransomware operation (Canada), 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 Storm ransomware group?

Storm 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 Lowerys breach?

Storm published data attributed to Lowerys. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Lowerys

Claimed by Storm · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Storm
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Sep 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lowerys is a local office supplies and services provider based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, serving businesses and individuals across Thunder Bay and Fort Frances. They offer office supplies, janitorial supplies, wide format printing, photocopying services, managed IT services, and bottled water solutions, with a stated 100-year operational history.

Industry: Office Supplies & Services
Address: 540 Central Avenue, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 6B4, Canada
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or specific data categories are advertised in the post. No operational disruption is stated. Only listing/announcement without evidence of exfiltration or encryption impact.

Storm claims to have compromised Lowerys but the leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what data categories are at stake.

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What the group claims

Lowerys is a provider of office supplies, printing, and photocopying services, catering to businesses and individuals in Thunder Bay and Fort Frances. They offer a wide range of products including office supplies, janitorial supplies, and managed IT services. With a history of 100 years, Lowerys emphasizes local shopping and provides a price match guarantee. Their services also include wide format printing and bottled water solutions. The company headquarters is located in 540 Central Avenue, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 6B4, Canada. 51-200 Employees

Sources

Leak posthttp://yqhecvqtdvq6p7duqcgw2qca77spbgakxcoibtx6zpvfshltsbbbhfqd.onion/company/6a9f228f4cc2b2e7e76b5aa2

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Storm

Storm is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting profile, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and relatively small victim footprint. The group has claimed or been attributed to attacks against at least six known victims, with the United States representing its primary target geography. Storm has demonstrated a preference for targeting the healthcare and manufacturing sectors, alongside a broader category of other industries, suggesting an opportunistic rather than highly specialized targeting philosophy. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited victim count, comprehensive technical details regarding its initial access vectors, encryption methodology, tooling, or affiliation with known threat actor ecosystems have not yet been formally documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other major threat intelligence publishers as of the time of this writing. No confirmed RaaS infrastructure, dark web leak site activity, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly attributed or reported in open sources. Given its nascent operational timeline beginning in 2026, Storm should be monitored as an emerging threat, particularly within the healthcare sector where ransomware attacks carry significant operational and patient safety implications, but analysts should treat any further characterization beyond the known victim and targeting data with caution pending additional corroborating intelligence. The group has been linked to 53 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post September 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 9, 2026Lowerys listed by Storm on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Storm

Storm has been linked to 53 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 Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Lowerys is reported in Canada, a country with 320 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Storm means Lowerys 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Storm'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.