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Spergel

Claimed by GLOBAL SECRET · listed 3 hours ago

5.4 TB (7,830,792 Files, 902,844 Folders)
Data size
7830792 files records
$28.2
Ransom
demanded
Today
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 10, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
GLOBAL SECRET
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
Canada
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 10, 2026
Data size
5.4 TB (7,830,792 Files, 902,844 Folders)
Records
7830792 files
Ransom demanded
$28.2

What the group claims

Spergel is a debt relief company that has helped Canadians navigate debt for over 35 years, offering solutions for credit card debt, business debt, and financial planning with clarity and compassion.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Country: Canada | Website: spergel.ca | Revenue: $28.2 Million | Industry: Business Services,Project Management | Employees: 51-200 | Properties: 5.4 TB (7,830,792 Files, 902,844 Folders)
Spergel is here to make debt relief feel less overwhelming — and a lot more human. For over 35 years, we’ve helped Canadians navigate debt with clarity, compassion, and real solutions that fit their lives. Whether you’re facing overwhelming credit card or business debt, worried about affording household expenses or having enough for retirement, our experts are here to guide you through your options and get you real results.

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Spergel

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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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 19 public disclosures across our corpus. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 10, 2026Spergel listed by GLOBAL SECRETon the group's public leak site
Data size
5.4 TB (7,830,792 Files, 902,844 Folders)
Records
7830792 files
Ransom demanded
$28.2

Other recent disclosures by GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET has been linked to 19 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full GLOBAL SECRET dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Spergel is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by GLOBAL SECRET means Spergel 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, CCCS (Canada), 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.