Was Gate | Crypto Exchange hit by ransomware?

Gate | Crypto Exchange was listed by the BYOD ransomware operation (Singapore), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the BYOD ransomware group?

BYOD is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Gate | Crypto Exchange breach?

BYOD published data attributed to Gate | Crypto Exchange. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Gate | Crypto Exchange

Claimed by BYOD · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 7, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: BYOD
Status: Data leaked
Country: Singapore
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gate is a cryptocurrency exchange platform. No additional details about scale, location, or founding date are available from public sources.

Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of PII at massive scale (12 million users) including phone numbers, location, gender, and sensitive financial data (balances, AUM, profit rates, 2FA indicators). This poses severe identity theft, fraud, and account takeover risks.

The BYOD group claims to have exfiltrated data from 12 million users, including personally identifiable information (phone numbers, gender, city, account details) and financial data (balance, VIP tier, AUM, profit rates, verification status). The group threatens further disclosure and demands communication.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Phone numbers
User nicknames
Account balances
VIP tier classification
2FA configuration details
User region
User IDs
Gender
User position
Assets under management (AUM)
Profit rates
Verification status
City
Trading strategy
Account age
Profile encryption key

What the group claims

12 Million Users, Phone numbers, Nicknames, Balance/VIP Tier List, 2FA Indicator (differentiates, Passkey/Auth) Region, UIDs, Gender, Position, AUM, Profit Rates, Verification Status, City, Strategy, Account Age, Profile Key, and SO much more. This is terrible, for you guys of course, we wonder what will happen if this ever gets out onto the corners of the internet it shouldn't. 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 5 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 7 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 5, 2026; most recent post October 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 7, 2026Gate | Crypto Exchange listed by BYOD on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by BYOD

BYOD has been linked to 7 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full BYOD dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,196 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gate | Crypto Exchange is reported in Singapore, a country with 45 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by BYOD means Gate | Crypto Exchange 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, SingCERT (Singapore), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.