Was iBUYPOWER hit by ransomware?

iBUYPOWER was listed by the Lynx 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 Lynx ransomware group?

Lynx 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 iBUYPOWER breach?

Lynx published data attributed to iBUYPOWER. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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iBUYPOWER

Claimed by Lynx · listed 1 year ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 22, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jul 22, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

iBUYPOWER is a custom gaming PC manufacturer founded in 1999, specializing in prebuilt and custom-configured gaming computers. The company serves professional gamers, esports teams, game developers, and consumer markets, partnering with major hardware brands including Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, and Microsoft. They operate as a direct-to-consumer retailer with free shipping and financing options.

Industry: Custom Gaming PCs & Computer Hardware
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: low — The provided leak post excerpt contains only generic company description and marketing content with no stated proof of compromise, data exfiltration, proof files, or operational impact. Without evidence of actual data theft or encryption, and absent proof materials, this appears to be an announcement only.

The Lynx group claims to have compromised iBUYPOWER. The leak post excerpt provided contains only company marketing and historical information; no explicit statement of data exfiltration, encryption, or specific compromise details is present in the truncated post.

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What the group claims

Since 1999, iBUYPOWER has embodied its core beliefs of Perseverance, Unity, Strength, and Ambition, to deliver on its promise to build the best gaming systems for the most discerning gamers. Even in a time when PCs were not as ubiquitous as they are today, we fueled the passion for gaming by giving our customers the highest quality in custom built computers. Our systems have since become the backbone for professional gamers, game developers, LAN centers, major esports tournaments, collegiate esports, and everyday consumers. iBUYPOWER has worked intimately with brands such as Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, WD, ASUS, Bethesda, MLG and many more. Superior performance, reliability, cutting edge technology and timely production make iBUYPOWER the authority in PC gaming.

Sources

Victim sitewww.ibuypower.com
Leak posthttp://lynxchatly4zludmhmi75jrwhycnoqvkxb4prohxmyzf4euf5gjxroad.onion/leaks/687e5d99cc2d2d4e68d307d5

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Lynx

Lynx is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid scaling capabilities with 397 documented victims within their first few months of operation. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting patterns suggest a sophisticated operation that may operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on their victim distribution, Lynx appears to employ broad-spectrum targeting methodologies focusing heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Australia representing their primary geographic targets, while concentrating their attacks on manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation/logistics sectors, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not yet been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have gained significant public attention from law enforcement agencies or established threat intelligence firms. As of late 2024, Lynx appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or operational changes. The group has been linked to 414 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 22, 2025iBUYPOWER listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lynx

Lynx has been linked to 414 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, iBUYPOWER is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lynx means iBUYPOWER 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 Lynx'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.