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TaxNetUSA

Claimed by Snatch · listed 5 years ago

55m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 11, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Snatch
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Jan 11, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

TaxNetUSA is a Texas-based company founded in 1994 that specializes in property tax information services for the real estate and property tax industries. Created by property tax consultants, it provides innovative tools and unlimited access to property tax data across Texas and other states. It serves professionals in the real estate and property tax consulting sectors.

Industry
Property Tax Data & Real Estate Information Services
Founded
1994

Attack summary

Severity: critical — TaxNetUSA aggregates large-scale property tax and real estate records tied to individuals and businesses, constituting PII at scale. The disclosed status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public release of potentially sensitive property and personal financial records.

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have attacked TaxNetUSA and has published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration of company data; the specific data types and volume are not fully detailed in the truncated post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Property tax records
  • Real estate data
  • Client/customer information
  • Business operational data

What the group claims

TaxNetUSA was founded in 1994 and has since become the leader in property tax information for the state of Texas and beyond. Created by property tax consultants, we serve the real estate and property tax industries with innovative tools and unlimited access to the most

Source

Indexed 5 years ago

This 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.

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 11, 2022TaxNetUSA listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Snatch dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, TaxNetUSA is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means TaxNetUSA 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Snatch'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.