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Johnson, Vollmerhausen & Gates PLLC

listed as Johnson Vollmerhausen & Gates · Claimed by AiLock · listed 4 months ago

6 TB
Data size
4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 7, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AiLock
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Mar 7, 2026
Data size
6 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Johnson, Vollmerhausen & Gates PLLC is a certified public accounting firm based in Asheville, North Carolina, with over 40 years of experience. The firm provides accounting, tax preparation, payroll processing, bookkeeping, and advisory services to both individuals and local businesses. They are a trusted regional practice operating under the domain jvgasheville.com.

Industry
Accounting, Tax & Advisory Services
Address
1265 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803

Attack summary

Severity: critical — An accounting and tax firm holds highly sensitive regulated financial and personal data for both individuals and businesses, including tax returns, payroll records, and bookkeeping data. Data_published status confirms exfiltration and release of what is likely substantial PII and financial records at scale.

AiLock claims to have compromised Johnson, Vollmerhausen & Gates PLLC and has published data from the attack. The disclosure status is marked as data_published, indicating exfiltration and release of firm or client data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client tax records
  • Business financial records
  • Payroll data
  • Bookkeeping records
  • Personal financial information (individuals)
  • Advisory/accounting files

What the group claims

Johnson Vollmerhausen & Gates provides professional accounting, tax, and advisory services tailored to the needs of both individuals and businesses.

The leak post

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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Johnson Vollmerhausen & Gates

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About AiLock

AiLock is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2026 with a primarily financial motivation, having targeted at least 24 known victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad operational scope spanning the United States, Canada, Great Britain, China, and Germany. Based on publicly available information from security researchers, AiLock appears to focus on technology companies, consumer services, manufacturing, and public sector entities, though specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been extensively documented by CISA, FBI, or major security firms. The group's relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation suggest they may be a smaller operation or newly formed entity, with no notable major campaigns or high-profile ransoms publicly reported by established threat intelligence sources. Given the March 2026 first observation date and lack of subsequent major public reporting, AiLock's current operational status and capabilities remain largely undetermined by mainstream cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 47 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 3, 2026; most recent post July 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 7, 2026Johnson Vollmerhausen & Gates listed by AiLockon the group's public leak site
Data size
6 TB

Other recent disclosures by AiLock

AiLock has been linked to 47 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full AiLock dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Johnson Vollmerhausen & Gates is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AiLock means Johnson Vollmerhausen & Gates 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 AiLock'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.