Was Match Group hit by ransomware?

Match Group was listed by the Hunters International ransomware operation (United States), 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 Hunters International ransomware group?

Hunters International 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 Match Group breach?

Hunters International published data attributed to Match Group, around 10M Records records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Match Group

Claimed by Hunters International · listed 6 months ago

10M Records

Records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hunters International
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jan 27, 2026
Records: 10M Records

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Match Group, Inc. is a Dallas-based technology company and the world's leading provider of online dating products, operating a portfolio of brands including Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish. The company serves hundreds of millions of users globally across its platforms. Match Group is publicly traded on NASDAQ and generates revenue primarily through subscription and à-la-carte services.

Industry: Online Dating & Social Matching Platforms
Address: 8750 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1400, Dallas, TX 75231, United States
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1995

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Match Group operates consumer-facing dating platforms holding sensitive PII at massive scale (10 million records claimed published), including potentially intimate personal data, contact details, and financial information for identifiable individuals — meeting the threshold for critical severity given confirmed exfiltration and data publication of regulated/sensitive consumer PII at scale.

Hunters International claims to have exfiltrated approximately 10 million records from Match Group and has published the data following the company's apparent refusal to pay a ransom, categorising the disclosure as 'data_published'.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

User personal records (up to 10 million)
Potentially user profile data
Potentially account credentials or contact information
Potentially payment or subscription records

What the group claims

Records: 10M Records | Updated: 28 Jan 2026 | Note: Your greed is killing you. | Don't be an idiot like this company. Make the right decision; don't be the next headline. Get off your moral high horse and make the right decision for your stakeholders. PAY OR LEAK otherwise you'll be made an example of.

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Hunters International

Hunters International is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on publicly available victim data, Hunters International has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services, technology, and manufacturing sectors, with their attacks primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. With 388 documented victims since their emergence, the group has shown consistent activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reports. As of current reporting, Hunters International appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or operational changes reported by major cybersecurity agencies. The group has been linked to 695 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 20, 2023; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Hunters.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 27, 2026Match Group listed by Hunters Internationalon the group's public leak site

Records: 10M Records

Other recent disclosures by Hunters International

Hunters International has been linked to 695 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Match Group is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hunters International means Match Group 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 Hunters International'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.