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Association OCACIA

Claimed by Nightspire · listed 3 months ago

3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 3, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nightspire
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Listed on leak site
Apr 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Association OCACIA is a French non-profit organisation (association) operating in the domain of auditing, inspection, and quality control, as suggested by its leak post referencing audit reports, control plans, deviation sheets, non-conformities, and corrective actions. It is based in France and operates under a clearnet presence at www.ocacia.org. The scale and broader scope of its activities could not be confirmed from available public sources.

Industry
Non-profit / Quality Auditing & Certification

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (not merely threatened), and the documents include internal operational and compliance records. However, there is no confirmed large-scale PII, medical, financial, or government data evident from the post; the organisation appears to be a small-to-mid-sized non-profit, limiting the severity below critical or high.

The Nightspire ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated internal organisational documents from Association OCACIA, including audit reports, control plans, non-conformity/deviation records, and corrective action files; the disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating the data has already been released.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Audit reports (Rapport d'audit)
  • Control plans (Plan de contrôle)
  • Deviation/non-conformity sheets (Fiche d'écart / Manquement)
  • Corrective action records (Action corrective)

What the group claims

- Rapport d'audit- Plan de contrôle- Fiche d'écart- Manquement- Action corrective

Sources

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 315 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: NIGHT SPIRE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 3, 2026Association OCACIA listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by nightspire

nightspire has been linked to 315 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Association OCACIA is reported in France, a country with 240 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nightspire means Association OCACIA 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, CERT-FR (France), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • 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.