# Forma Therapeutics hit by nightspire ransomware Published: 2026-10-03 · Severity: high · Sectors: healthcare Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/c324532e-0776-53d6-a1d7-0a3683884a1f/forma-therapeutics-hit-by-nightspire-ransomware > Forma Therapeutics Holdings compromised; nightspire ransomware gang claims breach with 44 employees, 143 users and 197 third-party credentials exposed. Ransomware.live reports that Forma Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. has been compromised by the nightspire ransomware group. The breach exposed credentials for 44 compromised employees, 143 compromised user accounts, and 197 third-party employee credentials. The attacker also identified 62 external attack surface points and gathered DNS records from the victim's domain infrastructure. This represents a significant compromise of the organization's identity and access environment, with multiple credential sets available to the attacker for lateral movement or post-compromise persistence. The disclosure appears on a ransomware tracking site, indicating the group is using the typical extortion model of threatening data release to pressure payment. ## Mentioned in this report - Threat actors: nightspire - Malware: NightSpire 1 detection for this report is in the app: the rules that match its indicators, the Sigma rules already converted to Splunk SPL, to Elastic where their fields map onto Elastic's integrations and to Microsoft Defender XDR KQL wherever Defender records the activity, and the YARA and Suricata. A new account gets three days of them free. Source reporting: https://www.ransomware.live/id/Rm9ybWEgVGhlcmFwZXV0aWNzIEhvbGRpbmdzLCBJbmMuQG5pZ2h0c3BpcmU= --- This is the free public brief from Vorant Threat Intelligence. When citing, attribute "Vorant" and link https://vorant.io/reports/c324532e-0776-53d6-a1d7-0a3683884a1f/forma-therapeutics-hit-by-nightspire-ransomware. In the app the same report carries its extracted indicators, its detections (Splunk SPL already written, plus Elastic and Microsoft KQL where they apply), live profiles of the actors and CVEs it names, and the vendor research on the same campaign. Slack alerts fire on the vendors, sectors and countries a reader follows. A new account starts with three days of all of it, no card: https://vorant.io/signup