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high severity April 23, 2026 · scope unconfirmed

NorthWest Handling Systems Listed by aurora Ransomware Group

[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 governm

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Severity High
Disclosed April 23, 2026
Affected Unconfirmed
Data exposed Internal files exfiltrated in ransomware attack
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