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Ben Leeds Properties

listed as Ben Leeds Properties WARNING · Claimed by ShadowByt3$ · listed 6 days ago

6d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 7, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
ShadowByt3$
Status
Data leaked
Country
United Kingdom
Listed on leak site
Sep 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ben Leeds Properties is a real estate management company operating in the Los Angeles and Hollywood areas, using AppFolio property management software for operations and client services.

Industry
Real Estate Management

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Threat of data publication with no proof currently provided; claims exfiltration of property management data which could include PII (tenant names, contact details, lease information), but no confirmed evidence of data download or published samples. Operational model suggests primarily residential/commercial tenant data rather than financial records.

ShadowByt3$ claims to have exfiltrated data from Ben Leeds Properties and threatens to publish it unless the company negotiates. The threat references data affecting people in Los Angeles and Hollywood, suggesting tenant or client information may be at risk.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Email correspondence
  • Client/tenant records
  • Property management data

What the group claims

We have emailed the following [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Reply back and negotiate or all data that we said was stolen gets published. If you comply and negotiate then we won't leak the data that we say we have and could tear down your reputation like dominos. Were not bluffing and this is not a drill we have what we say we have and we are willing to publish it and let everyone accross La and Hollywood know since it affects some people there. You have till wednesday September 9th 2026 due to labor day for USA Companies.

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in February 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on its ransomware operations. The group's country of origin and any potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited intelligence available on this newly identified threat actor. Given the minimal public documentation available, the group's attack methodology, tools, and operational tactics have not been sufficiently analyzed or reported by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. No notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, with only one known victim reported to date and no specific sector targeting patterns identified. The current operational status of ShadowByt3$ remains unclear due to the limited intelligence available on this recently emerged and relatively unknown ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 26 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2026; most recent post September 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 7, 2026Ben Leeds Properties WARNING listed by ShadowByt3$ on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ has been linked to 26 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Ben Leeds Properties WARNING is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 377 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ShadowByt3$ means Ben Leeds Properties WARNING 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on ShadowByt3$'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.