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Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP

Claimed by Dark Project · listed 3 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 24, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dark Project
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP is a regional accounting and tax services firm based in Suffolk County, New York, with offices in East Islip and Hampton Bays. The firm provides accounting, bookkeeping, tax preparation, audit, payroll, and business consulting services to small businesses, nonprofits, and specialized industries including auto dealers and retailers.

Industry
Accounting & Tax Services
Address
East Islip and Hampton Bays, Suffolk County, New York, US

Attack summary

Severity: high — Claimed exfiltration of 70+ GB including customer PII, bank records, and financial documents from a CPA firm. CPAs handle sensitive client tax, financial, and personal information at scale. No proof files advertised, but the data types and volume suggest significant exposure of regulated financial and personal information.

The Dark Project group claims to have conducted a cyberattack on Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP and exfiltrated over 70 GB of company data. The post claims the data includes customer information, bank records, and financial documents, with approximately 10,000 files stated to be unsecured. Note: the leak post contains conflicting information, also mentioning 'Thermo King' (a different company); this appears to be a template error in the group's disclosure.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer data
  • Bank records
  • Financial documents
  • Client files

What the group claims

About Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP is a professional accounting firm that offers a wide range of services including business accounting, tax preparation, and IRS problem resolution. They cater to small businesses, non-profit organizations, and specialized industries such as auto dealers and retailers. At least 100 gigabytes of company data—including financial records, internal files, and employee personal information—were stolen in a cyberattack. Hackers encrypted the firm's systems after exfiltrating the documents, leaving operations paralyzed.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Due to cyberattack on Thermo King more than 70 Gb of company data was stolen. Leakage contains big amount of sensitive data such as company's customers data, bank and financial information documents. About 10 000 files are not secured by THERMO KING for now.
Thermo King Eastern Canada is a leading manufacturer of transport temperature control systems for various mobile applications, including trucks, trailers, buses, and rail cars. The company focuses on providing innovative solutions that minimize energy consumption and emissions, catering primarily to the food and pharmaceutical industries.
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Sources

Source

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Disclosure context

About Dark Project

Dark Project is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, based on its targeting profile and operational patterns consistent with other profit-driven ransomware actors. As of the time of this writing, no major cybersecurity organizations including CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence firms have published detailed public reporting attributing Dark Project to a specific nation-state, threat actor cluster, or affiliated ransomware ecosystem, and it remains unclear whether the group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service platform or as an independent closed operation. Based on available victim telemetry, the group has claimed at least 18 known victims across a geographically diverse range of countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, the Philippines, and Germany representing its most frequently targeted regions. Its sectoral focus spans manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, hospitality, and education, suggesting an opportunistic targeting methodology rather than a narrowly defined strategic focus, though the inclusion of healthcare and critical infrastructure-adjacent sectors such as transportation warrants continued monitoring. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation at this time, specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption implementation, extortion tactics, and tooling remain unconfirmed by open-source intelligence sources, and analysts should treat any further claims with appropriate caution pending corroborating reporting from authoritative sources. Dark Project should be considered an emerging threat actor under active observation. The group has been linked to 31 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2026; most recent post August 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 24, 2026Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP listed by Dark Projecton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dark Project

Dark Project has been linked to 31 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 Professional Services sector, which has 14 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dark Project means Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP 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 Dark Project'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.

Jones, Little & Co., CPAs, LLP data breach — Dark Project ransomware leak (2026) · Darkfield