NorthWest Handling Systems

About the organisation

[warehouse] NorthWest Handling Systems — a 55-year-old forklift and warehouse equipment company headquartered in Renton, Washington, with branches across WA, OR, and AK. The dump is the entire corporate file share going back to 1988. 337,000+ files spanning every branch, every department, every era of the company. It includes: Plaintext credit card numbers in an Excel spreadsheet literally titled “C.O.D. info (CREDIT CARD INFO).xlsx” — stored at the root of the file server, unencrypted, for years. Social Security numbers and Taxpayer IDs on W-9 forms and certified payroll documents for government-contract work (USPS, Oregon DHS, public schools). 3+ years of plaintext passwords for Target Corporation’s vendor portal (TARS), stored in Word documents titled “TARGET PASSWORD & SECURITY QUESTIONS.” Each password rotation was saved as a new file. Home Depot Maximo DC billing credentials — plaintext, in a Word document, enabling fraudulent invoicing against a Fortune 50 company. Albertsons/Safeway Corrigo facility-management portal credentials — again, plaintext in a .docx file. 33 GB of customer warehouse CAD files — facility layouts, equipment placement, security-zone dimensions, and fire-protection drawings for approximately 50–200 companies including Nike, Google, Costco, and Umpqua Bank. 24,669 rows of fixed-asset data in ExportFile.csv — the complete equipment inventory, revealing the company’s financial structure, depreciation schedules, and capital-investment history. Corporate bank routing and account numbers (ACH authorization forms), employee direct-deposit details, time cards, disciplinary records, accident reports, and decades of invoices.

What the listing means

NorthWest Handling Systems appeared on the aurora leak site on 12 May 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated — the attack itself is dated 23 April 2026, 19 days before the listing. This group has published 1 claim in the last 30 days and remains active.

Recommended actions

• Treat any unsolicited message referencing NorthWest Handling Systems as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
• If you hold an account on NorthWest Handling Systems, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
• Other Transportation/Logistics organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
• Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
• A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.

Leak-site evidence

Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/Tm9ydGhXZXN0IEhhbmRsaW5nIFN5c3RlbXNAYXVyb3Jh

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