Was Kaye Lifestyle Homes hit by ransomware?

Kaye Lifestyle Homes was listed by the Sarcoma ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Sarcoma ransomware group?

Sarcoma is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Kaye Lifestyle Homes breach?

Sarcoma published data attributed to Kaye Lifestyle Homes (~521 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Kaye Lifestyle Homes

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 1 year ago

521 GB

Data size

15m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 17, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sarcoma
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Apr 17, 2025
Data size: 521 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kaye Lifestyle Homes is a family-owned home builder established in 1985, operating in Southwest Florida. The company has constructed over 4,000 homes and positions itself as a leading residential builder in the region, specializing in custom homes tailored to individual family lifestyles.

Industry: Residential Construction & Home Building
Founded: 1985

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 521 GB of significant business data (databases, email, files). Home builder records likely contain customer PII, financial information, and proprietary business data, though no specific regulated data types are stated in the post.

Sarcoma claims to have exfiltrated 521 GB of data from Kaye Lifestyle Homes, including files, SQL databases, and Exchange email servers. No encryption or operational disruption is explicitly stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Files (unspecified types)
SQL database contents
Exchange email servers/communications

What the group claims

Kaye Lifestyle Homes Since its establishment in 1985, Kaye Lifestyle Homes has built a vast number of homes for families, bringing happiness and satisfaction to thousands of homeowners. With more than 4,000 unique homes under our belt, we take pride in being the leading family-owned home builder in Southwest Florida. Our homes are tailored to fit the lifestyle of each family, and we are delighted to hear how our clients’ homes have exceeded their expectations.Geo: USA - Leak size: 521 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL, Exchange

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 17, 2025Kaye Lifestyle Homes listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 521 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kaye Lifestyle Homes is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means Kaye Lifestyle Homes appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. 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 Sarcoma'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.