Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsPublishers Clearing House
Claimed by anubis · listed 2 months ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Apr 1, 2026
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- anubis
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- US
- Sector
- Consumer Services
- Listed on leak site
- Apr 1, 2026
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profilePublishers Clearing House (PCH) is a well-known American direct-marketing company headquartered in Jericho, New York, famous for its sweepstakes promotions and prize giveaways. The company operates consumer-facing advertising networks, prize-linked marketing campaigns, and digital media properties targeting mass-market consumers across the United States. PCH has historically maintained large consumer databases as part of its direct-mail and digital marketing operations.
- Industry
- Sweepstakes, Direct Marketing & Advertising
- Founded
- 1953
Attack summary
Severity: critical — 1.4 TB / 843,230 files of data from a major direct-marketing company has been fully published. PCH maintains extensive consumer PII databases (names, addresses, purchase history, financial details) at scale, making this a high-probability large-scale regulated PII exposure with data already disclosed publicly.The Anubis ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 1.4 TB of data comprising 843,230 files from Publishers Clearing House, categorising the breach under 'Advertising Networks' and describing it as 'the fall of a sweepstakes giant.' The data has been published in full ('OPEN' status).
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Advertising network data
- Consumer marketing records
- Internal business files
- Potentially large-scale consumer PII
What the group claims
The fall of a sweepstakes giant.
The leak post
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Sources
Source
Indexed 2 months agoThis 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.
