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 87 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 10, 2026Colonial Presbyterian Church listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Colonial Presbyterian Church is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Colonial Presbyterian Church

Claimed by pear · listed 1 month ago

40d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 10, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: pear
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Colonial Presbyterian Church is a non-denominational Presbyterian congregation operating two campuses — one in Overland Park, Kansas and one in South Kansas City, Missouri. The church offers Sunday worship services, preschool programs, discipleship groups, and community outreach ministries. It is a mid-to-large congregation serving the greater Kansas City metro area.

Industry: Religious Organizations
Address: 12501 W 137th St, Overland Park, KS; 9500 Wornall Rd, South Kansas City, MO

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), meaning exfiltration and public release of internal records has occurred. Church data likely includes PII of congregants (names, contact details, donation records, potentially minors via preschool/youth programs), constituting significant sensitive personal data exposure.

The ransomware group 'pear' claims an attack on Colonial Presbyterian Church with a disclosed data-published status, indicating exfiltration of internal data. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal church records
Congregation member data
Staff/employee information
Financial/donation records
Administrative documents

What the group claims

Colonial Presbyterian Church operates two campuses in Overland Park and South Kansas City

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Colonial Presbyterian Church

Sources

Victim sitecolonialkc.org
Leak posthttp://pearsmob5sn44ismokiusuld34pnfwi6ctgin3qbvonpoob4lh3rmtqd.onion/Companies/colonialkc

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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