Was NWIMS IT Group hit by ransomware?

NWIMS IT Group 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 NWIMS IT Group breach?

Dragonforce published data attributed to NWIMS IT Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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NWIMS IT Group

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 16, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jan 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NWIMS IT Group is a UK-based managed IT services provider offering services to both home and business users, including broadband connectivity, VoIP telephony, mobile contracts, antivirus, online backup, managed security, virtualisation, data centre services, and network management. The company operates across multiple locations in northern England including Kendal, Windermere, Lancaster, Leeds, and Sheffield. It serves a broad range of clients from individual home users to business customers requiring infrastructure and continuity solutions.

Industry: Managed IT Services & Telecommunications
Address: Kendal / Windermere / Lancaster / Leeds / Sheffield, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: high — NWIMS IT Group is a managed IT services provider holding data for numerous business clients across multiple sectors; confirmed data publication by a ransomware group means third-party business data and potentially sensitive network/security configurations are exposed, representing significant downstream risk even absent a stated data volume.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated data from NWIMS IT Group, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating that stolen data has been released publicly. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business client data
Network management records
Backup and recovery data
VoIP and telephony account information
Broadband and connectivity account records
Mobile contract information
Managed security service data
Data centre service records

What the group claims

NWIMS IT Group provides a complete service for all your technology needs including computer repair and upgrade services for Home and Small Business Users. That it's not always an option to take your equipment in for repair or assistance. Therefore they offer a unique service where we will arrange a visit to you at your Home and/or office, where they can fix the problems in your own environment and answer any questions that you may have. At times a site visit will not be necessary and assistance can be given remotely. Here is a summary of the some of the services they offer: Internet and networks installed Hardware and Software upgrades Communications : Mobile Phones, Broadband, VOIP Phone systems Lost file and crash recovery, as well as system backup Virus, Trojan and Malware removal Hardware and Software Sales Security and Internet Filtering Office Virtualization Network Support Hardware upgrades and installations Assistance with other computer problems

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

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Indexed 5 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

January 16, 2026NWIMS IT Group listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,526 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, NWIMS IT Group is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means NWIMS IT 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 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.