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Powerhouse Retail Services

listed as powerhousenow.com · Claimed by Chaos · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 28, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Chaos
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
May 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Powerhouse Retail Services operates under the domain powerhousenow.com and provides retail-focused business services. The company appears to be registered in the US and active in retail sector operations.

Industry
Retail Services & Operations Management

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post contains only an announcement and threat of publication with 72-hour countdown. No proof files, screenshots, or data samples have been published. No specific data types or scale disclosed. Status is 'pending publication' with no confirmed data release yet.

The Chaos group claims to have exfiltrated internal data from Powerhouse and attempted to contact management regarding the incident. The group's leak post indicates data possession but provides no specific details on exfiltration scope or data types.

low

What the group claims

STATUS: PENDING PUBLICATION | TIME REMAINING: 72 HOURS ENTITY: Powerhouse (powerhousenow.com) THE REALITY OF POWERHOUSE We have been in possession of your internal data for some time. We have attempted to engage with your management to resolve this incident professionally, but their silence speaks…

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for powerhousenow.com

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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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 79 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 31, 2025; most recent post August 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 28, 2026powerhousenow.com listed by chaoson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by chaos

chaos has been linked to 79 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full chaos dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, powerhousenow.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by chaos means powerhousenow.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 chaos'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.