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Ransomware leak-site victims (RansomLook), confirmed breaches (Have I Been Pwned) and AI-written profiles of the most active groups

Ransomware & extortion groups · activity

#Group7dtrend30d90dall-time*Last postStatusEstimated earnings (public reporting)
1the gentlemen32▲9157413413activeno public figure
2qilin18▲2115359359activeno public figure
3krybit13▲11479696activeno public figure
4direwolf5▼6456262activeno public figure
5storm44▲44445656activeno public figure
6akira7▼1388282activeApproximately $42 million in ransom proceeds as of March 2024; no comprehensive public estimate since.
7coinbase cartel0=375656activeno public figure
8inc ransom3▼636106106activeno public figure
9lockbit55▼1278686activeOver US$120 million in ransom payments received, per U.S. DOJ and UK NCA Operation Cronos announcement (February 2024). Earnings attributable to the LockBit…
10shinyhunters1▼2243434activeno public figure
11safepay14▲8227272activeno public figure
12leakeddata0▼7203838activeno public figure
13orova0=194444activeno public figure
14zawoo0=191919activeno public figure
15audit team10▲6181919activeno public figure
16panzer6▲3172424activeno public figure
17kazu0▼17171717activeno public figure
18emperador6▲5161919activeno public figure
19play4▲4144444activeno public figure
20vexy4▼6141414activeno public figure
21black nevas13▲13131313activeno public figure
22chaos5▲4123434activeno public figure
23everest0▼4123434activeno public figure
24pear1▼1122727activeno public figure
25rhysida3▲1121515activeno public figure

*all-time = since this tracker started collecting leak-site posts. Earnings are estimates from public reporting (law enforcement, blockchain analytics), compiled by the model; treat as indicative.

Breaches9 records · full details

VictimBreach dateAdded to HIBPAccountsData exposedDescription
chess.com
breach
2026-08-03 · 2d ago4.7MEmail addresses, Geographic locations, Names, UsernamesIn August 2026, millions of records allegedly sourced from Chess.com were posted online . The data contained 7.3M rows with 4.6M unique email addresses, along with usernames, names, countries and data relating to users' Chess.com accounts. Analysis of the data suggested it had been obtained by scraping. When loaded into HIBP, 99% of the email addresses had already appeared in previous data breaches, further supporting the scraping theory. Read more about scrapes and data breaches.
mckesson.com
breachsensitive
2026-08-21 · 5d ago6.4MDates of birth, Email addresses, Employers, Genders, Names, Personal health data, Phone numbers, Physical addressesIn August 2026, healthcare and pharmaceutical company McKesson was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign . The group subsequently published a substantial corpus of data they alleged was sourced from the company, which included 6.4M unique email addresses among other personal and corporate data attributes. The impacted data related to a range of individuals and roles, including marketing campaign recipients, patients, staff and healthcare provider contacts. In McKesson's disclosure notice , the company advised it had identified unauthorised access to "certain third-party applications and the exfiltration of certain data was associated with a subset of customers within our Oncology & Multispecialty and Medical-Surgical business units", but had "reasonable assurance of no ongoing unauthorized activity".
magairports.com
breach
2026-08-27 · 13d ago8.8MBrowser user agent details, Email addresses, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Purchases, Vehicle registration platesIn August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach impacting their services . The incident was later claimed by the FulcrumSec hacking group , who subsequently published email addresses and phone numbers relating to 8.8M customers of Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports. The data contained personal information relating to airport services, including vehicle registrations and parking history, Fast Track purchases and lounge bookings. In their disclosure notice , MAG advised that "at no point has passenger safety or aviation security been compromised".
questel.com
breach
2026-08-01 · 14d ago1.2MEmail addresses, Employers, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Support ticketsIn August 2026, the French intellectual property software and services company Questel was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign . The group subsequently published an extensive corpus of data they alleged was obtained from the company, largely comprising corporate contact information associated with sales leads, support cases and marketing activities, with 1.2M unique email addresses. The data also included names, employers and job titles, along with physical addresses and phone numbers.
carhartt.com
breach
2026-08-13 · 21d ago12.9MEmail addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addressesIn August 2026, clothing retailer Carhartt was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign . The group subsequently published data allegedly obtained from the company including 12.9M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The published corpus also contained millions of synthetic records that did not relate to real individuals and were excluded from the breach.
nius.de
breachsensitive
2025-07-13 · 23d ago6.1KBank account numbers, Email addresses, Names, Partial credit card data, Physical addresses, PurchasesIn July 2025, the German news service NIUS suffered a data breach which was subsequently leaked publicly . The data included 6k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and payment details for purchases including either IBANs or partial credit card data (masked card number, type and expiry).
golfcanada.ca
breach
2026-05-14 · 24d ago569KDates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, Names, UsernamesIn mid-2026, hundreds of thousands of user records allegedly sourced from Golf Canada began circulating via Telegram. The data included 569k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, dates of birth, genders and approximate geographic locations (city, province and postcode). It remains unclear whether the data was obtained via unintentionally exposed website features or a security vulnerability.
ozhairandbeauty.com
breach
2026-08-15 · 27d ago2MEmail addresses, Geographic locations, Names, Phone numbers, PurchasesIn August 2026, Australian beauty retailer Oz Hair and Beauty was the target of an xpl0itrs extortion attack . The group subsequently published data allegedly obtained from the company, which included 2M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, geographic locations (suburb and postcode) and purchases.
fanlore.org
breach
2026-08-06 · 27d ago145KEmail addresses, Names, Passwords, UsernamesIn August 2026, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) identified unauthorised access to the Fanlore wiki it operates . The breach resulted in the exposure of 145k unique email addresses along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or PBKDF2 hashes. OTW self-submitted the exposed data to HIBP.

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Leak-site posts are claims by criminals and can be false or duplicated; victim names are shown as posted. HIBP entries are verified breaches with the affected account count. Dates are when the post or breach was first observed, not when the intrusion happened.