Was Carpets Direct hit by ransomware?

Carpets Direct was listed by the GLOBAL SECRET ransomware operation (United States) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

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Carpets Direct

Claimed by GLOBAL SECRET · listed 3 hours ago

31.1 GB (1,442 Files, 788 Folders)

Data size

1442 files records

Ransom

demanded

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedAug 10, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: GLOBAL SECRET
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: United States
Sector: Retail
Listed on leak site: Aug 10, 2026
Data size: 31.1 GB (1,442 Files, 788 Folders)
Records: 1442 files
Ransom demanded: $5

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Carpets Direct is a locally owned and operated flooring and carpet retailer based in Findlay, Ohio. The company has been in business since 1995 and specializes in carpet and flooring installation services for the local Findlay market.

Industry: Retail - Flooring & Carpet Installation
Address: Findlay, Ohio, United States
Employees: 11-50
Founded: 1995

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data exfiltration of moderate scale (31.1 GB) from a small retail business with potential customer/employee PII, but no proof files or screenshots are mentioned in the post. Ransom demand is unusually low ($5), suggesting either a test/probe or opportunistic attack.

GLOBAL SECRET claims to have encrypted Carpets Direct's systems and exfiltrated 31.1 GB of company data (1,442 files, 788 folders). The group is demanding a $5 ransom and has listed the victim on their leak site.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business documents
Financial records
Customer data
Employee information
System files

What the group claims

Ever since Carpets Direct opened its doors in 1995, we have strived to be the best source for Findlay's flooring needs. We're locally owned and operated, which allows us to give you the most personal experience possible!

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Country: Ohio, United States | Website: carpetsdirectfindlay.com | Revenue: $5 Million | Industry: Retail,Furniture | Employees: 11-50 | Properties: 31.1 GB (1,442 Files, 788 Folders)
Ever since Carpets Direct opened its doors in 1995, we have strived to be the best source for Findlay's flooring needs. We're locally owned and operated, which allows us to give you the most personal experience possible!

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Victim sitecarpetsdirectfindlay.com
Leak posthttp://o5lsqyar7ox25z734k6zaxt2vf7bsyi4q5rturi5iyxzqo3ica7bjsad.onion/project/6/

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET is an active ransomware group with 19 confirmed victims as of August 2026. It operates a single onion leak site. The limited victim count suggests a relatively early or low-volume operation. The group has been linked to 19 public disclosures across our corpus. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 10, 2026Carpets Direct listed by GLOBAL SECRETon the group's public leak site

Data size: 31.1 GB (1,442 Files, 788 Folders)
Records: 1442 files
Ransom demanded: $5

Other recent disclosures by GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET has been linked to 19 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Carpets Direct is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by GLOBAL SECRET means Carpets Direct appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 GLOBAL SECRET'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.