Was cornwelltools.com hit by ransomware?

cornwelltools.com was listed by the Cactus 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 Cactus ransomware group?

Cactus 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 cornwelltools.com breach?

Cactus published data attributed to cornwelltools.com, around 1M records records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Cornwell Quality Tools

listed as cornwelltools.com · Claimed by Cactus · listed 1 year ago

1M records

Records

$218.7M

Ransom

demanded

17m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 4, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Cactus
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 4, 2025
Records: 1M records
Ransom demanded: $218.7M
Estimated revenue: $218.7M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cornwell Quality Tools is a family and employee-owned manufacturer of hand, power, and lawn-care tools, headquartered in Wadsworth, Ohio. Founded in 1919, the company has over 100 years of market presence and is known as a mobile tool company serving professional customers. The company generates approximately $218.7M in annual revenue.

Industry: Hand, Power & Lawn-care Tools Manufacturing
Address: 667 Seville Rd, Wadsworth, Ohio 44281, United States
Founded: 1919

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of over 1 million records containing highly regulated PII (SSN, DOB, credit card data, driver's licenses) from both employees and customers, plus corporate financial and tax documents. Data has been published with decryption keys and proof files posted to dark web mirrors.

Cactus claims to have exfiltrated personal identifiable information from both employees and customers, including customer confidential data, corporate documents, contracts, NDAs, financial records, payroll, tax documents, corporate correspondence, Outlook exports, and databases containing PII and credit card information (over 1 million records with SSN, DOB, and card details). The group has published proof files and decryption keys.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee PII
Customer PII
Customer confidential data
Corporate documents and contracts
NDAs
TechCredit scans with customer PII
Corporate financial documents
Payroll records
Tax documents
Corporate and personal correspondence
Outlook email exports
Databases with PII and credit card information
Social Security Numbers
Dates of birth
Credit card numbers and expiration dates
Driver's licenses

What the group claims

Hand, Power & Lawn-care Tools. “Headquartered in Wadsworth, Ohio, Cornwell Quality Tools is the oldest mobile tool company, with a market presence since 1919. A family and employee-owned company, Cornwell is committed to the pride that accompanies the sale of quality materials. With the use of high-grade alloy steel, combined with modern heat-treating methods, Cornwell has continued to produce the finest tools in the world, that have truly been "The Choice of Professionals®" for over 100 years.” Website: <a href="https://www.cornwelltools.com/">https://www.cornwelltools.com/</a> Revenue : $218.7M Address: 667 Seville Rd, Wadsworth, Ohio, 44281, United States Phone Number: (330) 336-3506 Download link #1:  <a href="https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/CORNWELL/PROOF/">https://6wuivqgrv2g7brcwhjw5co3vligiqowpumzkcyebku7i2busrvlxnzid.onion/CORNWELL/PROOF/</a> Mirror: <a href="https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/CORNWELL/PROOF/">https://cactus5dqnqkppa5ayckiyk6dttpqwczdqphv5mxh4dkk5ct544q5aad.onion/CORNWELL/PROOF/</a> DATA DESCRIPTIONS: Personal Identifiable information (both employees and customers), customer confidential data, corporate documents\contracts\NDAs, TechCredit scans with customer personal information, corporate financial docs\payroll\taxes, corporate and personal correspondence, outlook exports, databases with Personal Identifiable Infomation and Credit Cards information, including SSN + DOB, credit card number and expiration date (over 1 million records) with decryption keys and much more.<img src="/uploads/8524393_6ccbb786f8.png" alt="8524393.png"><img src="/uploads/Sherman_James_B379_Drivers_License_babfae2b43.png" alt="Sherman, James B379 Drivers License.pn

Sources

Victim sitecornwelltools.com
Leak posthttps://cactusbloguuodvqjmnzlwetjlpj6aggc6iocwhuupb47laukux7ckid.onion/posts/CORNWELL

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Cactus

**Overview:** Cactus is a ransomware group that emerged in July 2023, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid expansion, compromising 552 known victims within its first year of operation. **Origin & Affiliation:** Limited public information exists regarding Cactus's country of origin or specific affiliations with other ransomware groups, though their targeting patterns and operational methods suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. **Attack Methodology:** Cactus ransomware operators employ double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victim systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met. The group appears to focus on gaining initial access through common vectors such as compromised credentials and vulnerable internet-facing applications, followed by lateral movement and data exfiltration prior to deployment of their encryption payload. **Notable Campaigns:** While specific high-profile incidents have not been extensively documented by major security agencies, the group's victim count of 552 organizations within approximately one year indicates sustained and aggressive targeting campaigns across North America and Europe. Their focus on manufacturing and business services sectors suggests deliberate targeting of organizations likely to pay ransoms due to operational dependencies. **Current Status:** Cactus remains an active ransomware threat as of late 2024, continuing to target organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and European countries with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed dissolution of their operations. The group has been linked to 552 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 20, 2023; most recent post March 21, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 4, 2025cornwelltools.com listed by Cactuson the group's public leak site

Records: 1M records
Ransom demanded: $218.7M

Other recent disclosures by Cactus

Cactus has been linked to 552 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 Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, cornwelltools.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Cactus means cornwelltools.com 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 Cactus'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.