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Smith Dunn & Co

listed as SmithDunn&Co · Claimed by Spacebears · listed 1 year ago

17m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 6, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Spacebears
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Feb 6, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Smith Dunn & Co is a tax preparation and accounting firm operating in the Rowlett and Rockwall, Texas area. They provide individual and business tax preparation, e-filing, bookkeeping, and QuickBooks services to business owners, executives, and independent professionals.

Industry
Tax Preparation & Accounting Services
Address
Rowlett, TX / Rockwall, TX

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of client tax records and financial data constitutes sensitive PII at scale (tax files, QuickBooks records, personal financial information), with clear regulatory implications under privacy and tax law.

Spacebears claims to have exfiltrated company documents, client files, databases (Drake Software and QuickBooks records), and other sensitive information from Smith Dunn & Co.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company documents
  • Client tax files
  • Drake Software databases
  • QuickBooks data
  • Client financial records

What the group claims

The company specializes in tax services, business tax preparation, e-filing, and individual tax preparation.Company DocumentsData Bases (Drake Software, Quickbooks)Client's FilesOther Valuable and Sensitive Information https://www.smithdunn.com/

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 185 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 6, 2025SmithDunn&Co listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 185 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, SmithDunn&Co is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means SmithDunn&Co 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 Spacebears'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.