Was CR Architecture + Design hit by ransomware?

CR Architecture + Design was listed by the Payouts King 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 Payouts King ransomware group?

Payouts King 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 CR Architecture + Design breach?

Payouts King published data attributed to CR Architecture + Design. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Cole + Russell Architects, Inc.

listed as CR Architecture + Design · Claimed by Payouts King · listed 1 year ago

12m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 7, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Jul 7, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cole + Russell Architects, Inc. (operating as CR Architecture + Design) is a US-based architectural and design firm specializing in multi-sector projects including housing, education, hospitality, and government work. The firm has wound down operations as of the disclosure date.

Industry: Architectural Design & Planning

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory are advertised in the post. The company is in wind-down status, limiting operational impact assessment. Insufficient evidence of exfiltration or encryption confirmation.

The payoutsking group claims to have compromised CR Architecture + Design and published data, though no specific details about encryption, exfiltration method, or data types are provided in the available post excerpt.

low

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

CR Architecture + Design is a US-based company that specializes in providing architectural and design solutions. The firm delivers expertise across various sectors including housing, education, hospitality, and government. The team of architects, interior designers, and graphic designers work together, drawing on their different perspectives to create both functional and innovative spaces. They balance aesthetic concerns with practical requirements, ensuring successful project outcomes.

Sources

Victim sitecr-architects.com
Leak posthttps:/payoutsgn7cy6uliwevdqspncjpfxpmzgirwl2au65la7rfs5x3qnbqd.onion/detail_post/Zft4JTSjCELxKLjp9JgW

Source

Indexed 1 year 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

July 7, 2025CR Architecture + Design listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CR Architecture + Design is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means CR Architecture + Design 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.