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TPA Group Slovakia

Claimed by TEAM UNDERGROUND · listed 3 months ago

3m
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 2, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Status
Listed for ransom
Country
Slovakia
Listed on leak site
Jun 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

TPA Group Slovakia (TPA Slovensko) is a tax and consulting firm operating as part of Baker Tilly International. They provide tax advisory, compliance, and business consulting services across multiple sectors in Slovakia.

Industry
Professional Services & Tax Consulting

Attack summary

Severity: high — Professional services firm handling sensitive client financial and tax data at scale; $15M ransom demand and multi-domain compromise indicate significant exfiltration; consulting/accounting firms process regulated PII and financial information.

TEAM UNDERGROUND claims to have compromised TPA Group Slovakia and is demanding $15 million ransom. The group references both tpa-group.com and tpa-group.sk domains, suggesting a multi-entity attack across the TPA Group network.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • tax client records
  • financial advisory files
  • business consulting documents
  • potentially regulated tax/compliance data

The leak post

captured from the group's site
tpa-group.com $281 million; tpa-group.sk $15 million

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for TPA Group Slovakia

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About TEAM UNDERGROUND

TEAM UNDERGROUND is a ransomware group first observed in May 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, though its limited operational history makes comprehensive attribution difficult at this time. With only a single known victim recorded to date, the group has demonstrated a targeting preference for the Audit, Tax Advisory, and Legal Services sector, suggesting a deliberate focus on organizations that handle sensitive financial, legal, and confidential client data — a common strategic choice among financially motivated threat actors seeking high-value exfiltration leverage. Given the group's extremely recent emergence and minimal operational footprint, detailed technical indicators regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, or affiliation with broader ransomware ecosystems have not yet been publicly documented by authoritative sources such as CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or equivalent research bodies. No confirmed affiliations with known ransomware-as-a-service platforms or established threat actor groups have been publicly established, nor have any notable high-profile campaigns, law enforcement actions, or ransom figures been attributed to this group in open-source reporting. TEAM UNDERGROUND should currently be regarded as an emerging and closely monitored threat, with its full capabilities, infrastructure, and operational scope remaining largely uncharacterized pending further observed activity and independent security research. The group has been linked to 7 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 14, 2026; most recent post June 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 2, 2026TPA Group Slovakia listed by TEAM UNDERGROUNDon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consulting sector, which has 67 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, TPA Group Slovakia is reported in Slovakia, a country with 4 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by TEAM UNDERGROUND means TPA Group Slovakia appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on TEAM UNDERGROUND'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.