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 410 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post May 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 7, 2026Options listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $25M

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Options is reported in Canada, a country with 810 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Options Community Services Society

listed as Options · Claimed by Lynx · listed 4 months ago

$25M

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 7, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Jan 7, 2026
Ransom demanded: $25M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Options Community Services Society is a non-profit organization operating in the Individual & Family Services sector, headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. It employs between 101 and 250 people and generates an estimated $25M–$50M in revenue. The organization provides community and social services to individuals and families in the region.

Industry: Individual & Family Services
Address: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Employees: 101-250

Attack summary

Severity: high — The attack targets a social services non-profit handling sensitive personal and family data for vulnerable populations, with data published (confirmed exfiltration) and a significant $25M ransom demand. Exposure of client PII in this sector carries elevated sensitivity.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have attacked Options Community Services Society and has published data as part of a disclosed leak, with a ransom demand of $25 million. The post indicates data exfiltration, though the specific data types and volume were not detailed in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee records
Client personal information
Financial records
Organizational operational data

What the group claims

Options Community Services Society is a company that operates in the Individual & Family Services industry. It employs 101-250 people and has $25M-$50M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Sources

Victim siteoptions.com
Leak posthttp://lynxchatly4zludmhmi75jrwhycnoqvkxb4prohxmyzf4euf5gjxroad.onion/leaks/69553ec79c439c5f45ff2bae

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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