Disclosure context

About minteye

Based on available information, minteye is an emerging ransomware group first observed in December 2025 with limited documented activity, having targeted at least five known victims primarily for financial gain. The group's origin and affiliations remain unknown, with no publicly documented information from major security firms regarding their operational structure or whether they operate as a ransomware-as-a-service model. Their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and specific tools have not been extensively documented by reputable security researchers, though their targeting pattern suggests they focus on diverse sectors including construction, transportation/logistics, and agriculture/food production. The group has primarily targeted organizations in the United States and Chile, indicating either a regional focus or opportunistic targeting based on access rather than strategic selection. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence date of December 2025 and limited victim count, minteye appears to be a newly active group with minimal public documentation of their capabilities or impact. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 12, 2025. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 12, 2025Cranford, Buckley, Schultze, Tomchin, Allen & Buie, P.A. listed by minteyeon the group's public leak site

Data size: 350 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cranford, Buckley, Schultze, Tomchin, Allen & Buie, P.A. is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Cranford, Buckley, Schultze, Tomchin, Allen & Buie, P.A.

Claimed by minteye · listed 5 months ago

350 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 12, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: minteye
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Dec 12, 2025
Data size: 350 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cranford, Buckley, Schultze, Tomchin, Allen & Buie, P.A. is a full-service general practice law firm located in South Charlotte, North Carolina. The firm's attorneys collectively hold over 230 years of experience and serve both individuals and businesses across State and Federal Courts throughout North Carolina. Practice areas include real estate, estate planning and probate, corporate matters, litigation, creditor/debtor representation, and local government law.

Industry: Legal Services
Address: 7257 Pineville-Matthews Road, Suite 2100, Charlotte, NC 28226

Attack summary

Severity: critical — A law firm of this nature holds highly sensitive client data including privileged legal communications, real estate transaction records, estate and probate documents, financial records, and personal identifying information for individuals and businesses. The 350 GB exfiltration with confirmed data publication constitutes a critical exposure of regulated and sensitive PII and privileged legal material at scale.

The minteye ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 350 GB of data from the firm and has published the data (disclosed status: data_published). No ransom amount was stated and no further details on encryption or specific data categories were provided in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

350 GB of firm data

What the group claims

Size: 350 GB

Sources

Victim sitewww.southcharlottelawfirm.com

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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