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Franklin Empire

Claimed by BYOD · listed 20 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 5, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
BYOD
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Oct 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Franklin Empire is the victim name provided; no public site or corroborating information is available to determine the company's actual business, location, or scale.

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive data at significant scale (700GB+), including customer PII, API keys, and cloud infrastructure credentials. Active extortion threat and data publication indicate operational risk and potential for downstream compromise.

BYOD claims to have exfiltrated approximately 700GB of data including AWS credentials, API keys, SMTP credentials, packaging slips, invoices, customer PII, and inventory information. The group has published data and is using it as leverage in an extortion demand.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • AWS credentials and bucket contents
  • Moonshot AI API keys
  • SMTP credentials
  • Packaging slips
  • Invoices
  • Business documents (PDFs)
  • Customer PII
  • Inventory records

What the group claims

You know we have over 700GB of Data, AWS Keys to your buckets, (which we dumped), Moonshot AI API keys, SMTP credentials, Packaging Slips, invoices, PDFs, Business Information, Customer PII, Inventory stash and SO much more. Your team knows how serious the breach is, hence why everything got rotated FAST, you also know how bad it can get if it gets posted in every corner of the dark web, Either reach out to us using the Contact methods listed on our site or face the consequences. Make the right decision, it's only you who can save yourselves. Anyways, you know where to find us (contact tab). We will take you down when communication has been established between our team and yours.

Source

Indexed 20 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About BYOD

BYOD is a nascent ransomware group first observed in October 2026 with limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources at this time. The group has claimed or been attributed to three known victims, with targeting patterns indicating a focus on the Technology and Manufacturing sectors, with Malaysia and the United States representing their primary geographic targets. Due to the group's recent emergence and low victim count, no detailed attack methodology, tooling, or initial access vectors have been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or equivalent reputable security research organizations as of this profile's compilation. No notable high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions have been publicly attributed to BYOD, and their operational model — whether independent or RaaS-based — remains unconfirmed in open-source reporting. The group should be considered an emerging threat under active monitoring, with their targeting of dual geographies across Southeast Asia and North America warranting continued observation as their operational tempo and tactics may become clearer with additional victim disclosures or researcher attribution. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 5, 2026Franklin Empire listed by BYOD on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by BYOD

BYOD has been linked to 5 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full BYOD dossier →

If your organisation is affected

A listing by BYOD means Franklin Empire 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on BYOD'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.