Was Cannavative Group hit by ransomware?

Cannavative Group was listed by the nightspire 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 nightspire ransomware group?

nightspire 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 Cannavative Group breach?

nightspire published data attributed to Cannavative Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Cannavative Group

Claimed by Nightspire · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 22, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Nightspire
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Mar 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cannavative Group is a Nevada-based cannabis company that grows, refines, and manufactures marijuana products including pre-rolls, edibles, concentrates, and cartridges. The company operates retail locations in Las Vegas, Reno, and Carson City, Nevada. It markets itself as a producer of high-quality, locally grown cannabis products.

Industry: Cannabis Products Manufacturing & Retail
Address: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of data including regulated cannabis-tracking database (METRC, a government-mandated seed-to-sale compliance system), financial records, and personally identifiable employee and client documents, representing significant regulatory and privacy exposure.

The Nightspire ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Cannavative Group, including QuickBooks financial files, METRC cannabis compliance database records, and employment and client documents. The disclosed status indicates data has been published.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

QuickBooks financial files
METRC cannabis compliance database
Employee documents
Client documents

What the group claims

- QuickBook Files- METRC DB-Employeement & Clients Documents

Sources

Victim sitewww.cannavativegroup.com

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 283 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 22, 2026Cannavative Group listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nightspire

nightspire has been linked to 283 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Cannavative Group is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nightspire means Cannavative Group 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 nightspire'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.