Disclosure context

About chaos

Based on the limited publicly available information, Chaos is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in March 2025, appearing to be financially motivated given their ransom demands and targeting patterns. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their operational model and whether they operate as Ransomware-as-a-Service or as an independent entity has not been definitively established by security researchers. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities are not yet well-documented in public threat intelligence reports, though their targeting suggests they employ common initial access vectors to compromise victims across multiple sectors. Chaos has claimed 41 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, Germany, Poland, Malaysia, and Sweden, with a particular focus on technology companies, financial services, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though the scope and impact of their most significant attacks have not been widely publicized. The group currently appears to be active based on recent victim claims, though comprehensive analysis from major security firms regarding their long-term operational capabilities and potential law enforcement actions remains limited due to their recent emergence in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 53 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 31, 2025; most recent post May 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 8, 2025thinkmarkets.com listed by chaoson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, thinkmarkets.com is reported in Australia, a country with 368 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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ThinkMarkets

listed as thinkmarkets.com · Claimed by chaos · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 8, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: chaos
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Dec 8, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ThinkMarkets is a multi-asset online brokerage founded in 2010, headquartered in London and Melbourne with regional hubs across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and South America. The firm offers trading in over 4,000 instruments including Forex, CFDs, commodities, indices, and cryptocurrencies via its proprietary ThinkTrader platform. It is regulated by multiple authorities including CySEC and serves retail and institutional clients globally.

Industry: Online CFD & Multi-Asset Brokerage
Address: Level 25, 525 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia / 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AB, United Kingdom
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 2010

Attack summary

Severity: critical — ThinkMarkets is a regulated financial brokerage handling highly sensitive regulated data including customer PII, financial account details, and payment information at global scale; data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of this regulated financial data.

The Chaos ransomware group claims to have compromised ThinkMarkets and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post provides no specific details on the volume or type of data exfiltrated, nor whether encryption was performed.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer account records
Financial trading data
Personal identification information
Payment and banking details
Internal business documents

What the group claims

Founded in 2010, ThinkMarkets is a multi-asset online brokerage with headquarters in London and Melbourne and hubs in the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and South America.

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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