Was MONTALBAARCHITECTS.COM hit by ransomware?

MONTALBAARCHITECTS.COM was listed by the clop 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 clop ransomware group?

clop 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 MONTALBAARCHITECTS.COM breach?

clop published data attributed to MONTALBAARCHITECTS.COM. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Montalba Architects, Inc.

listed as MONTALBAARCHITECTS.COM · Claimed by Clop · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 25, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Clop
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Jan 25, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Montalba Architects is an international architecture practice with offices in Santa Monica, New York, and Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded by David Montalba, they specialize in residential, commercial, hospitality, and urban design projects, with a focus on contextual and conceptual environments. The firm has received numerous design awards, including the 2026 AIA California Firm Award.

Industry: Architecture & Design Services
Address: 2525 Michigan Ave., Bldg. T4, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (primary US office); 416 West 13th Street, Suite 200, New York, NY 10014; Rue Centrale 6, Lausanne, CH-1003, Switzerland
Founded: 2003

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group with no ransom demand stated, indicating a confirmed breach. However, the leak post contains no specific details about data types, volumes, or proof files, and the disclosed data appears to be standard business/project information rather than regulated or highly sensitive data.

The Clop ransomware group claims to have breached Montalba Architects and published data. No specific details are provided about the scope of exfiltration or encryption.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Project designs and architectural plans
Client communications
Business records
Employee information

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

MONTALBA ARCHITECTS, INC. is a Swiss and American-based architecture firm founded by David Montalba. With offices in Santa Monica, California and Lausanne, Switzerland, they handle both residential and commercial projects. Known for their attention to detail, spatial fluidity, and creative use of light, they have won numerous design awards. They also prioritize environmentally-friendly solutions.

Sources

Victim siteMONTALBAARCHITECTS.COM
Leak posthttp://santat7kpllt6iyvqbr7q4amdv6dzrh6paatvyrzl7ry3zm72zigf4ad.onion/montalbaarchitects-com

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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Disclosure context

About clop

Clop (also stylized as "Cl0p") is a financially motivated ransomware group and cybercriminal enterprise that emerged in early 2020 as an evolution of the earlier CryptoMix ransomware family, operating primarily for monetary extortion against large enterprise targets. The group is widely assessed by Mandiant, CISA, and other reputable researchers to have ties to Russian-speaking cybercriminal actors, with some researchers linking their operations to the broader FIN11 threat cluster; they operate a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model while also conducting direct intrusion operations. Clop is particularly distinguished for its aggressive exploitation of zero-day and n-day vulnerabilities in managed file transfer (MFT) and enterprise software platforms as primary initial access vectors, most notably the exploitation of Accellion FTA (2020-2021), Fortra GoAnywhere MFT (CVE-2023-0669), and the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability (CVE-2023-34362) in 2023, and consistently employs double extortion tactics — exfiltrating sensitive data prior to or in lieu of encryption and threatening public disclosure on their dedicated leak site to coerce payment. Clop has been responsible for some of the most impactful ransomware campaigns on record, with their 2023 MOVEit exploitation campaign alone affecting over 1,000 organizations globally and impacting entities including Shell, the U.S. Department of Energy, British Airways, and numerous U.S. federal agencies, with the broader campaign representing one of the largest mass-exploitation events in ransomware history; Ukrainian law enforcement arrested six individuals linked to Clop operations in June 2021, though the group's core leadership is assessed to remain outside of effective law enforcement jurisdiction. As of the most recent publicly available intelligence, Clop remains active, continuing to leverage vulnerability exploitation campaigns against enterprise file transfer solutions and maintaining a victim count exceeding 1,250 known organizations, with consistent targeting concentrated in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany across technology, business services, manufacturing, and consumer services sectors. The group has been linked to 1,254 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 13, 2020; most recent post May 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Cl0p.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 25, 2026MONTALBAARCHITECTS.COM listed by clopon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by clop

clop has been linked to 1,254 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, MONTALBAARCHITECTS.COM is reported in United States, a country with 3,101 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by clop means MONTALBAARCHITECTS.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 clop'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.