Was Morison Insurance Brokers hit by ransomware?

Morison Insurance Brokers was listed by the sinobi 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 sinobi ransomware group?

sinobi 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 Morison Insurance Brokers breach?

sinobi published data attributed to Morison Insurance Brokers. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Morison Insurance Brokers

Claimed by Sinobi · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sinobi
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Jan 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Morison Insurance Brokers is a leading insurance brokerage based in Ontario, Canada, specializing in home, auto, and business insurance products for individual and commercial clients. They offer customized solutions including high-value home and luxury vehicle coverage. The firm is noted for community involvement, supporting over 100 organizations and events across Ontario.

Industry: Insurance Brokerage
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — The status is data_published, indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of data from an insurance broker that likely holds significant volumes of regulated PII (names, addresses, financial details, policy information) for both individual and business clients in Ontario.

The group sinobi claims to have compromised Morison Insurance Brokers and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify whether encryption or exfiltration occurred, nor detail the volume or nature of the data exposed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client personal information
Insurance policy records
Business client data
Financial records

What the group claims

Morison Insurance Brokers is a leading insurance provider in Ontario, specializing in home, auto, and business insurance. They offer a wide range of customized insurance products, including high-value home and luxury car insurance, catering to both individual and business clients. With a commitment to saving clients money and providing exceptional service, Morison Insurance has earned numerous awards and recognition in the industry. Their team is dedicated to community involvement, supporting over 100 organizations and events across Ontario.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About sinobi

Based on the limited publicly available information, Sinobi appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in July 2025, with financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of 268 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, and there is no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than highly selective operations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy, with a focus on manufacturing, healthcare, construction, and technology sectors, suggesting they may exploit common vulnerabilities across these industries rather than deploying sophisticated, sector-specific attack vectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Sinobi have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence timeline and lack of extensive public documentation, the group's current operational status and long-term trajectory remain unclear, though the substantial victim count suggests continued activity as of the last available reporting period. The group has been linked to 274 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 5, 2025; most recent post May 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 27, 2026Morison Insurance Brokers listed by sinobion the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by sinobi

sinobi has been linked to 274 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 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Morison Insurance Brokers is reported in Canada, a country with 810 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by sinobi means Morison Insurance Brokers 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 sinobi'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.