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CRI Electric

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 2 hours ago

5.79 TB
Data size
151 vendor W-9 forms records
Today
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 25, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Rhysida
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Construction/Electrical Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 25, 2026
Data size
5.79 TB
Records
151 vendor W-9 forms

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CRI Electric is a veteran-owned electrical services company based in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. They provide residential and commercial electrical services including emergency repairs, EV charger installations, and home rewiring, and hold SDVOSB (Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business) certification.

Industry
Electrical Services & Contracting
Address
San Antonio, Texas, US
Employees
~600
Founded
1998

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Exfiltration of regulated data at scale: federal employee credentials including VA identity and DoD access artifacts, employee SSNs/bank account information, medical records, healthcare data, and classified/confidential government documents (GI-Confidential folders). Exposure of sensitive national security-related credentials and DoD contract payment systems poses significant operational and security risk.

Rhysida claims to have exfiltrated 5.79 TB of data from CRI Electric, including employee federal account artifacts, payroll records with SSNs, HR files, DoD-related credentials and contract payment information, public-sector bid pricing documents, corporate records, and financial data. The group is offering the stolen data for sale with a stated 7-day auction window.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee federal credentials (Login.gov, DoD DS Logon, ID.me)
  • TSP (retirement savings) account data
  • 151 vendor W-9 forms with SSNs/EINs
  • Payroll documents and HR correspondence
  • OSHA injury/incident reports with photos
  • Public-sector bid pricing (SAWS, SAISD, NISD)
  • SDVOSB certification and corporate bylaws
  • QuickBooks financial records
  • 16,389 unique email addresses
  • 11,963 phone numbers
  • 12,076 individuals with names and addresses
  • 148 IBANs
  • Login credentials (5,941 files)
  • Medical/health insurance data (2,738 files)

What the group claims

Veteran-owned electrical services business based in San Antonio, providing residential and commercial electrical services since 1998.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
CRI Electric is a veteran-owned business based in San Antonio, providing professional electrical services since 1998. They cater to both residential and commercial clients, offering services such as emergency electrical repairs, EV charger installations, and home rewiring. **We are pleased to present:** Employee's federal account artifacts** (`HR-Confidential\Israel's Forms`): Login.gov personal recovery key (VA identity), TSP (retirement savings), ID.me, DoD DS Logon, PIEE (DoD contract payments)151 vendor W-9 forms** (SSN/EIN), payroll docs, HR-lawyer (privileged) correspondence, OSHA-adjacent injury/incident reports with photos.Public-sector bid pricing** (2025�2026: SAWS HQ EV charging, SAISD, NISD) � bid-competitiveness and Davis-Bacon certified-payroll context.Corporate docs (SDVOSB certification, Articles, bylaws, stock ledgers), QuickBooks financials, a Power of Attorney
With just 7 days on the clock, seize the opportunity to bid on exclusive, unique, and impressive data. Open your wallets and be ready to buy exclusive data. We sell only to one hand, no reselling, you will be the only owner!
Total capacity 5.79 TBLegal/Complaints/Offenses 77,939 OWi proceedings, lawsuits, l…

Data the group says was taken

  • employee federal account artifacts
  • W-9 forms with SSN/EIN
  • payroll documents
  • HR and legal correspondence
  • OSHA injury/incident reports
  • public-sector bid pricing
  • corporate documents
  • QuickBooks financials
  • Power of Attorney
  • SDVOSB certification

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for CRI Electric

Sources

Source

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Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 294 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 25, 2026CRI Electric listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site
Data size
5.79 TB
Records
151 vendor W-9 forms

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 294 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Rhysida dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction/Electrical Services sector. Geographically, CRI Electric is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means CRI Electric appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Rhysida'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.

CRI Electric data breach — Rhysida ransomware attack (2026) · Darkfield