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Eyemart Express

Claimed by Payouts King · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 30, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Payouts King
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Consumer Services
Listed on leak site
Apr 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Eyemart Express is a US-based retail optical chain headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas, specializing in prescription eyeglasses, contact lenses, and eye exams. Founded in 1990, the company operates hundreds of stores across the United States and is known for fast turnaround times on eyewear. It competes in the optical retail sector alongside brands such as LensCrafters and Visionworks.

Industry
Optical Retail
Address
1700 Jay Ell Drive, Farmers Branch, TX 75234
Employees
1001-5000
Founded
1990

Attack summary

Severity: high — Eyemart Express handles health-adjacent data including optical prescriptions and customer PII at scale across hundreds of locations. The disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration and release, which elevates severity; prescription/vision data may constitute regulated health information under HIPAA.

The group 'payoutsking' claims to have compromised Eyemart Express and has published data, though the leak post provides no specific description of encryption or exfiltration methods, nor the volume or nature of the data disclosed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer records
  • Prescription data
  • Employee records
  • Store location and operational data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Eyemart Express is a United States-based retail optical chain specializing in prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas, the company operates hundreds of stores across the country. It offers eye exams, frames, and lenses with an emphasis on fast turnaround times. Eyemart Express competes in the optical retail industry alongside brands like LensCrafters and Visionworks.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
PayoutsKing PayoutsKing Blog News About Partnership Welcome PK MAIN TOX: 535F403A2EA2DC71A392E18D7DB77FEF70845C0B7E5B9114CD30D301870304379C3547E324E2 Company Create Website Country Revenue Employees Actions Data Views Status H****l 2026-04-21 t****.com USA $786M ** Exfiltrated 860GB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 F****p 2026-04-14 fl****.com USA $2.7B ** Exfiltrated & Encrypted 1.1TB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 H****o 2026-04-01 has****.com USA $TBD ** Exfiltrated & Encrypted 4.8TB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 A****y 2026-03-31 ape****.com USA $309M ** Exfiltrated & Encrypted 3TB 0 Declared 2d 00:04 NTN Bearing Corporation of America 2026-04-24 ntnamericas.com USA $1.5B 4700 Exfiltrated 596GB 420 Proof 6d 02:09 About company: NTN Bearing is a producer of ball and roller bearings, with plants around the globe and a strong, domestic manufacturing network. Data description: Confidential, Employees' PII (Personally Identifiable Information), Correspondence, Financial, Engineering, Contracts, Agreements, NDA, FULL INFO SunSource 2026-04-20 sun-source.com USA $2B 3500 Exfiltrated 700GB 3401 Disclosed About company: SunSource is a distribution company, providing products, services, and information in…

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 30, 2026Eyemart Express listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Eyemart Express is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means Eyemart Express 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 Payouts King'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.