Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 155 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 20, 2026Finance of America Companies Inc. listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Finance of America Companies Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Finance of America Companies Inc.

Claimed by worldleaks · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Finance of America Companies Inc. is a publicly traded, end-to-end lending and financial services platform headquartered in the United States. The company operates across multiple brands offering reverse mortgages, retail lending, commercial real estate financing, and fixed income asset management. It is recognized as a top reverse mortgage lender and serves clients through a national network of offices and online platforms.

Industry: Mortgage Lending & Financial Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Finance of America is a large financial services and mortgage lending firm handling regulated consumer financial data (PII, loan applications, mortgage records) at scale. The disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of likely highly sensitive regulated financial and personal data.

The worldleaks group claims to have exfiltrated data from Finance of America Companies Inc. and has published the data; no ransom amount was stated and no specific data volume was disclosed.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial records
Lending and mortgage data
Customer PII
Internal business documents

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Finance of America Companies Inc. is an end-to-end lending and services platform operating in the United States. The company offers a wide range of financial products across various brands, focusing on fixed income asset management, commercial real estate, reverse mortgages, and retail lending. It serves clients through online platforms and its extensive national network of offices.

Sources

Victim sitewww.financeofamerica.com
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/9129662988

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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