Was Ben Leeds Properties hit by ransomware?

Ben Leeds Properties was listed by the ShadowByt3$ ransomware operation (United Kingdom), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the ShadowByt3$ ransomware group?

ShadowByt3$ is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Ben Leeds Properties breach?

ShadowByt3$ published data attributed to Ben Leeds Properties. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Ben Leeds Properties

Claimed by ShadowByt3$ · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 7, 2026
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 property management company established in 1986 operating throughout Southern California and Nevada. They manage over 4,000 units including apartments, single-family homes, mobile home communities, and commercial retail spaces, with a primary presence in the Greater Los Angeles Area and properties in Oxnard.

Industry: Property Management & Residential Real Estate
Address: Greater Los Angeles Area, Southern California and Nevada, USA (primary); Oxnard property mentioned
Founded: 1986

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The group claims data exfiltration with a published deadline and threat, but provides no proof files, screenshots, or data samples. The victim operates a property management business handling resident information which could include PII, but no specific data categories are confirmed as stolen. The post lacks technical credibility markers (no proof inventory, generic threat language).

ShadowByt3$ claims to have exfiltrated data from Ben Leeds Properties and issued a deadline of Wednesday, September 9th, 2026, to negotiate or face publication of stolen data. The group asserts they possess data and threaten to publish it and damage the company's reputation.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Email credentials/contact lists
Unspecified corporate 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

Victim sitebenleedsproperties.com
Leak posthttps://mega.nz/notpublishedyetbutwillbesoon

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 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 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 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.