Was Brookview Financial hit by ransomware?

Brookview Financial was listed by the Dragonforce 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 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 Brookview Financial breach?

Dragonforce published data attributed to Brookview Financial. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Brookview Financial

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 6 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 24, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Brookview Financial is a boutique private lender specializing in quick-close financing solutions for real estate projects, founded in 1992. Operating nationwide, they provide commercial bridge loans, fix & flip loans, and special situation financing ranging from $75,000 to over $50 million, with closing times as fast as 7 days.

Industry: Private Mortgage Lending & Real Estate Finance
Address: 2321 Whitney Ave Ste 102, Hamden, Connecticut, United States
Founded: 1992

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated financial and personal data at scale: credit reports, SSNs, and addresses of thousands of customers constitute regulated sensitive PII and financial records subject to privacy and lending regulations.

The dragonforce group claims to have exfiltrated customer and business data from Brookview Financial. The leak post indicates exposure of data belonging to many thousands of customers, including credit reports, Social Security numbers, and addresses.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

customer credit reports
Social Security numbers (SSNs)
customer addresses
customer personal data

What the group claims

(data of many thousands of customers, including credit reports, SSNs, addresses, etc.) Brookview Financial is a boutique private lender specializing in quick-close financing solutions for real estate projects. Established in 1992, the company has served as a trusted capital partner for thousands of real estate investors across the nation. They offer a range of loan programs, including commercial bridge loans, fix & flip loans, and special situation financing, with amounts ranging from $75,000 to over $50 million. Known for their personal service and flexible terms, Brookview can close deals in as little as 7 days.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Wozair specializes in the design, manufacture, and installation of heavy-duty heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) products for various sectors inc...
2321 Whitney Ave Ste 102, Hamden, Connecticut, United States
(data of many thousands of customers, including credit reports, SSNs, addresses, etc.) Brookview Financial is a boutique private lender specializing in quick-cl...
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Hogan Omidi, P.C. is a boutique law firm specializing in family law, including divorce, child custody, and property division, with a focus on high-asset cases. ...
### R & D Machine and Engineering
130 Scarlet Blvd, Oldsmar, Florida
&D Machine and Engineering, LLC specializes in CNC machining of precision metal components primarily for the aerospace, defense, and space industries…

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 hours 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 663 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post August 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 24, 2026Brookview Financial listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 663 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,195 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Brookview Financial is reported in Canada, a country with 319 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Brookview Financial 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 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.