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Taxplan

Claimed by Crypto24 · listed 1 year ago

15m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 8, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Crypto24
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Apr 8, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Taxplan is a tax and accounting firm based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, serving more than 6,000 clients annually. The firm specializes in corporate and personal tax preparation, accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, and estate planning services, with tax planning handled by Shammi Chhibber CPA Professional Corporation.

Industry
Tax Preparation & Accounting Services
Address
2355 Derry Rd E, Unit 46, Mississauga, ON L5S 1V6, Canada
Employees
51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive financial and personal tax data affecting 6,000+ clients, combined with published disclosure. Tax records and client PII constitute regulated sensitive information under Canadian privacy law.

The crypto24 group claims to have exfiltrated tax-related documents, databases, client data, and business programs from Taxplan. The group has published the data without disclosing a ransom demand.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Tax-related documents
  • Client personal and financial data
  • Database records
  • Business programs/systems
  • Accounting records

What the group claims

Tax-related documents and data, database and programs

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About crypto24

Crypto24 is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2025, with a primary financial motivation evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting pattern suggests either independent operations or a new ransomware-as-a-service offering given the diverse geographic spread of their 43 documented victims. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not yet been thoroughly documented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of technology, financial services, healthcare, and business services sectors indicates they likely employ common initial access vectors such as phishing or exploitation of public-facing applications to gain entry into victim networks. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in the United States while also conducting operations across Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, as well as extending their reach to Egypt, suggesting either a globally distributed affiliate network or opportunistic targeting based on vulnerable infrastructure discovery. Crypto24 remains active as of the latest available intelligence reporting, though given their recent emergence, comprehensive details about their specific tactics, techniques, and procedures await further analysis by established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 8, 2025Taxplan listed by crypto24on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by crypto24

crypto24 has been linked to 49 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full crypto24 dossier →

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, Taxplan is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by crypto24 means Taxplan 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on crypto24'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.