Was South Georgia Accounting Services hit by ransomware?

South Georgia Accounting Services was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (United States), 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 Spacebears ransomware group?

Spacebears 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 South Georgia Accounting Services breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to South Georgia Accounting Services. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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South Georgia Accounting Services

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 1 year ago

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 25, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

South Georgia Accounting Services is a small accounting and tax firm based in Moultrie, Georgia, specializing in small business accounting, tax preparation, and payroll services. The firm is run by an IRS-enrolled agent with over 25 years of experience and offers full-service bookkeeping, business consulting, and QuickBooks support.

Industry: Accounting & Tax Services
Address: 304 Sunset Circle, Moultrie, GA 31768

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of financial data (accounting records and QuickBooks files) belonging to multiple client businesses, constituting sensitive business and potentially personally identifiable financial information at scale. This impacts not only the victim firm but potentially dozens of downstream client businesses.

Spacebears claims to have exfiltrated a database containing company accounting records and QuickBooks client files from South Georgia Accounting Services. The group has published the leak post but no ransom demand or additional details are stated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

company accounting database
QuickBooks client files

What the group claims

South Georgia Accounting ServicesProviding Accounting and Tax services that you can count on.Enrolled Agent authorized by the IRS . Specializing in all aspects of small business accounting.- Database with company accounting- Quickbooks Client Files https://sgaccountingservices.com/

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 185 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 25, 2025South Georgia Accounting Services listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 185 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, South Georgia 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 Spacebears means South Georgia 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 Spacebears'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.