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Nations Homes II

listed as Nations Homes Commercial & Residential Construction South Carolina, United States · Claimed by Eldorado · listed 2 years ago

25 Employees
Records
$5M
Ransom
demanded
20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 18, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Eldorado
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Nov 18, 2024
Records
25 Employees
Ransom demanded
$5M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nations Homes II is a luxury custom home builder based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, specializing in high-end residential construction and design services. The company operates across multiple communities in the Grand Strand area, offering custom home builds, interior design, drafting, and property sales with fewer than 25 employees and annual revenue under $5 million.

Industry
Luxury Custom Home Building & Real Estate Development
Address
5125 N. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577, United States
Employees
<25

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published by the threat actor against a small business with likely limited sensitive regulated data; exposure involves client information and business operations but no indication of government, financial institution, medical, or large-scale PII compromise. Ransom demand ($5M) appears inflated relative to company size.

Eldorado claims to have conducted a ransomware attack on Nations Homes II, presumably encrypting systems and exfiltrating business data. The group is demanding $5 million in ransom and has published data as proof of the breach.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client contact information
  • Construction project details
  • Financial records
  • Design plans and specifications
  • Business correspondence
  • Employee information

What the group claims

Nations Homes has earned a reputation as one of the finest custom homebuilders in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. <25 Employees Revenue <$5 Million

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Eldorado

Eldorado is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in June 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a relatively broad targeting approach across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, with no confirmed links to state actors or established ransomware families, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal RaaS model. Specific technical details regarding Eldorado's initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration capabilities have not been extensively documented in public security research, though their targeting of over 112 victims across diverse sectors including business services, technology, manufacturing, and financial services suggests they employ opportunistic attack methodologies rather than highly specialized techniques. The group has demonstrated a geographic focus primarily on the United States and Canada, with additional activity observed in Italy, UAE, and Croatia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or major ransomware incidents have been publicly attributed to this group by federal agencies or major security firms. As of current reporting, Eldorado appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities, though the limited public visibility of their operations suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation compared to established ransomware families. The group has been linked to 112 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2024; most recent post January 22, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: el dorado.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 18, 2024Nations Homes Commercial & Residential Construction South Carolina, United States listed by Eldoradoon the group's public leak site
Records
25 Employees
Ransom demanded
$5M

Other recent disclosures by Eldorado

Eldorado has been linked to 112 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Eldorado 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, Nations Homes Commercial & Residential Construction South Carolina, United States is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Eldorado means Nations Homes Commercial & Residential Construction South Carolina, United States 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 Eldorado'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.