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Poe's Accounting Services

Claimed by Pear · listed 8 months ago

7m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 17, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Pear
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Nov 17, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Poe's Accounting Services is a small CPA firm based in Dacula, Gwinnett County, Georgia, serving the surrounding area including Buford, Grayson, Lawrenceville, and Snellville. Founded in 2009, the firm offers tax preparation for individuals and businesses, bookkeeping, payroll services, and IRS resolution support. It has been voted Best CPA Services of Gwinnett County.

Industry
Accounting & Tax Preparation Services
Address
Dacula, GA 30019, United States
Employees
1-10
Founded
2009

Attack summary

Severity: critical — An accounting and tax preparation firm handles highly sensitive regulated financial PII for both individuals and businesses, including SSNs, income data, payroll details, and federal/state tax filings. Confirmed data publication by the threat actor makes this a critical disclosure.

The ransomware group 'pear' claims to have compromised Poe's Accounting Services and has published data from the attack. The leaked data reportedly pertains to accounting services and tax return preparation records held by the firm.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Tax return records
  • Client financial data
  • Business accounting records
  • Payroll records
  • Personal income tax filings
  • Business tax filings

What the group claims

Accounting services and tax return preparation

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 103 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 17, 2025Poe's Accounting Services listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Poe's Accounting Services is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means Poe's Accounting Services 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 pear'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.