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4M Realty Company

Claimed by GLOBAL SECRET · listed 5 days ago

237 GB (54,995 Files, 4,600 Folders)
Data size
54995 files records
5d
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 8, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
GLOBAL SECRET
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Real Estate
Listed on leak site
Sep 8, 2026
Data size
237 GB (54,995 Files, 4,600 Folders)
Records
54995 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

4M Realty Company is a full-service commercial real estate brokerage based in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1983. An affiliate of 4M Properties, Inc. (a 50-year-old diversified real estate company), it represents buyers, sellers, tenants, and investors across 44 cities in 16 states, with expertise in industrial, office, apartment, retail, and other commercial property assets.

Industry
Commercial Real Estate Brokerage
Address
6812 West Avenue, Suite 200, San Antonio, Texas 78213, US
Employees
20-50
Founded
1983

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business data (237 GB) from a commercial real estate firm. No indication that regulated PII or financial records of individuals at scale were targeted, nor operational disruption to critical infrastructure. Exposure is primarily to company business documents and client commercial real estate transaction data.

GLOBAL SECRET claims to have encrypted 4M Realty Company's systems and exfiltrated 237 GB of company data (54,995 files across 4,600 folders). The group has published the victim listing with proof inventory but no specific data categories are detailed in the leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Real estate transaction records
  • Client information
  • Property listings and portfolios
  • Business correspondence
  • Financial records

What the group claims

4M Realty Company, a full-service real estate brokerage company, is an affiliate of 4M Properties, Inc. a San Antonio based, 41 year-old diversified real estate company which has built and managed or sold over $1 Billion dollars of commercial real estate in 44 cities and 16 states.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Country: Texas, US | Website: 4mrealty.com | Revenue: $5 Million | Industry: Real Estate Brokerage, Real Estate Sales, Property Sales, Commercial Real Estate | Employees: 20-50 | Properties: 237 GB (54,995 Files, 4,600 Folders)
4M Realty Company, a full-service real estate brokerage company, is an affiliate of 4M Properties, Inc. a San Antonio based, 41 year-old diversified real estate company which has built and managed or sold over $1 Billion dollars of commercial real estate in 44 cities and 16 states.
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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for 4M Realty Company

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET is an active ransomware group with 19 confirmed victims as of August 2026. It operates a single onion leak site. The limited victim count suggests a relatively early or low-volume operation. The group has been linked to 41 public disclosures across our corpus. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 8, 20264M Realty Company listed by GLOBAL SECRET on the group's public leak site
Data size
237 GB (54,995 Files, 4,600 Folders)
Records
54995 files

Other recent disclosures by GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET has been linked to 41 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Real Estate sector, which has 91 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, 4M Realty Company is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by GLOBAL SECRET means 4M Realty Company 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on GLOBAL SECRET'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.