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Kevin Bao Lenguyen and Associates, Inc.

listed as Kevin Bao Lenguyen · Claimed by Play · listed 8 days ago

7d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 7, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Play
Status
Data leaked
Listed on leak site
Jul 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

KBLAA is a tax and accounting services firm based in San Jose, California, offering tax preparation, tax planning, audit and assurance, payroll outsourcing, and international/local taxation services. The firm operates as a professional services practice serving individual and corporate clients.

Industry
Tax & Accounting Services
Address
2266 Senter Rd., Ste. 146, San Jose, CA 95112, United States

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Tax and accounting firm with likely access to sensitive PII (tax returns, SSNs, financial records) and business financial data. Data published status confirmed, but no proof files quantified and no operational disruption stated. Sensitivity elevated due to regulated financial/tax data at scale.

The Play ransomware group claims to have attacked KBLAA and published data. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration method, or data scope are provided in the leak post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client tax records
  • Financial information
  • Payroll data
  • Business client records

What the group claims

United States

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Play

**Overview:** Play (also known as PlayCrypt) is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in late 2022, conducting targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on financial extortion. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin remains unclear based on public reporting, though they appear to operate independently rather than as a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. **Attack Methodology:** Play ransomware operators typically gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials and exploit valid accounts, then move laterally through networks using tools like Cobalt Strike before deploying their custom ransomware payload. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. **Notable Campaigns:** According to CISA advisories, Play has targeted over 300 entities globally since its emergence, with significant impacts on critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, and government services, though specific ransom amounts and individual victim details vary in public reporting. **Current Status:** Play remains an active threat as of 2024, continuing to target organizations primarily in North America and Europe according to ongoing security researcher observations and law enforcement warnings. The group has been linked to 1,316 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 26, 2022; most recent post July 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: PlayCrypt.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 7, 2026Kevin Bao Lenguyen listed by Playon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Play

Play has been linked to 1,316 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Play dossier →

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Play means Kevin Bao Lenguyen 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Play'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.