Was EARTHWORKS Group hit by ransomware?

EARTHWORKS Group 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 EARTHWORKS Group breach?

Sarcoma published data attributed to EARTHWORKS Group (~15.5 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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EARTHWORKS Group

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 2 years ago

15.5 GB

Data size

21m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sarcoma
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2024
Data size: 15.5 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

EARTHWORKS Group, Inc. is a turn-key planning and design firm established in 1996 offering civil engineering, architectural, environmental, land planning, GIS, structural, and construction management services primarily to public and private sector clients in the southeastern United States. The firm has completed over 10,000 projects and employs 29+ professional staff.

Industry: Engineering, Architecture & Environmental Consulting
Employees: 29
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 15.5 GB of data including databases and files from an engineering/environmental consulting firm that works with government agencies and infrastructure projects; likely contains sensitive client data, project plans, and regulatory information.

Sarcoma claims to have exfiltrated 15.5 GB of data from EARTHWORKS Group, including files and SQL databases. The group has published the data without stating a ransom demand.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Files
SQL databases
Project documentation
Client records
Design files and CAD data

What the group claims

The EARTHWORKS Group, Inc. is a turn-key planning and design firm established in 1996 with the mission of providing individualized, technically competent, responsive, yet cost effective engineering and environmental management services to clients throughout the southeastern United States. We provide Engineering, Architectural, Environmental, Land Planning, Geographic Information Systems, Structural, Construction Management, Wetland Mitigation Banking, Project Marketing and other consulting services for public and private sector clients. We work closely with our clients during the design process to address technical issues pertaining to infrastructure, building, and other regulatory requirements. EARTHWORKS’ personnel has an excellent track record of working with the multitude of local, state and federal agencies to obtain necessary development approvals to start your project.Geo: USA - Leak size: 15,5 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL

Sources

Victim siteearthworksgroup.com

Source

Indexed 2 years 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

October 9, 2024EARTHWORKS Group listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 15.5 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, EARTHWORKS Group 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 EARTHWORKS Group 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.