Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,858 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 4, 2026Cushman & Wakefield listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cushman & Wakefield is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Cushman & Wakefield

Claimed by qilin · listed 16 days ago

16d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 4, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cushman & Wakefield is one of the world's largest commercial real estate services firms, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company provides services including property leasing, capital markets, facilities management, project management, and valuation advisory across more than 60 countries. It serves a broad range of clients including corporate occupiers, investors, and landlords globally.

Industry: Commercial Real Estate Services
Address: 225 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606, USA
Employees: 50000
Founded: 1917

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published ('data_published' status) confirming exfiltration from a major global commercial real estate firm; this likely involves significant business data, client PII, financial records, and proprietary corporate information at scale, though the exact data categories are unspecified.

The Qilin ransomware group claims to have attacked Cushman & Wakefield and has published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration of company data. The specific nature and volume of exfiltrated data is not described in the available leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Client records
Internal documents

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 16 days ago

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