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Smoll & Banning, CPAs

Claimed by Rhysida · listed 8 months ago

7m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 18, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Rhysida
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Nov 18, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Smoll & Banning, CPA's, LLC is an independent accounting firm located in Dodge City, Kansas. The firm provides accounting and related financial services to its clients. As a small regional CPA practice, it likely serves individuals and businesses in the surrounding area.

Industry
Accounting & CPA Services
Address
Dodge City, Kansas, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A CPA firm holds highly sensitive regulated data including client tax filings, financial statements, and PII at scale. The 'data_published' status confirms exfiltration and public release of this regulated financial and personal data.

Rhysida claims to have attacked Smoll & Banning, CPAs and has published data ('data_published' status), suggesting exfiltration of firm and/or client records. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client financial records
  • Tax returns
  • Business accounting files
  • Personally identifiable information (PII)
  • Internal firm documents

What the group claims

Smoll & Banning, CPAs Smoll & Banning, CPA's, LLC is an independent accounting firm located in Dodge City, Kansas.

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Rhysida

Rhysida is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against critical infrastructure and public sector organizations. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear, though they operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model, with limited public documentation regarding connections to other cybercriminal organizations. Rhysida employs double extortion tactics, typically gaining initial access through compromised VPN credentials and exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications before deploying their ransomware payload and exfiltrating sensitive data prior to encryption. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on healthcare and educational institutions, with notable attacks documented by CISA and FBI advisories highlighting their targeting of hospitals and school districts across multiple countries, resulting in significant operational disruptions to critical services. As of late 2024, Rhysida remains an active threat with continued operations targeting organizations primarily in the United States, Canada, and other Western nations, maintaining their focus on high-value sectors where operational disruption can maximize ransom payment likelihood. The group has been linked to 282 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 5, 2023; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 18, 2025Smoll & Banning, CPAs listed by Rhysidaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Rhysida

Rhysida has been linked to 282 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Rhysida dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Smoll & Banning, CPAs is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Rhysida means Smoll & Banning, CPAs 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 Rhysida'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.