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Associated Asset Management

listed as AAM:HOA Management · Claimed by Direwolf · listed 2 days ago

2d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 15, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Direwolf
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Associated Asset Management (AAM) is a US-based homeowners association and community association management company headquartered in Arizona. The company provides comprehensive HOA management services including resident record management, accounting, architectural reviews, and operates recreation and gate-access platforms serving multiple states (Arizona, South Carolina, California).

Industry
HOA & Community Association Management
Address
Arizona, US
Employees
51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of large-scale regulated PII including resident names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and dates of birth across multiple databases. Includes financial data (delinquency, payment card transaction logs, general ledger), tenant personal information with lease details, employee credentials and payroll data, and board member contact information. The breadth and sensitivity of data combined with the scale (34 GB, 400K+ resident records) meets critical threshold.

The direwolf group claims to have exfiltrated 34 GB of data across 432 files from AAM's systems, including encrypted and unencrypted databases from multiple production and staging environments. The breach exposes resident personal information, financial records, delinquency data, architectural records, payment information, employee data, and tenant registration details.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Resident names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and zip codes
  • Delinquency records with payment aging (30/60/90 days)
  • HOA general ledger and accounting data (debits, credits, balances)
  • Vendor payment details and invoices
  • Financial transactions and payment methods (card data, hashes)
  • Board committee member contact information
  • Architectural review requests and approvals
  • Recreation/gate-access POS orders, fees, and transactions
  • Employee payroll, time logs, AD credentials, and hiring dates
  • Tenant registration with lease information, payment logs, and emergency contacts
  • Mobile app user credentials (passwords with salt)
  • Email tracking and SendGrid status logs

What the group claims

HOA Management

The leak post

captured from the group's site
|  (US homeowners-association / community association management company, AZ-based: resident & delinquency records, HOA accounting, architectural reviews, recreation & gate-access platform "eTrak", resale and tenant registration)  |  
| --- |  
| 34.0 GB, 432 files, , ~   |  
| HOA management staging: delinquency, residents, GL, vendors  |  
| --- |  
| HOA reporting warehouse: residents, delinquency, architecture, commerce  |  
| Recreation / gate-access POS: orders, fees, users, payments  |  
| eTrak staging: users, orders, backups, Lexington data  |  
| Resident mobile app: directories, app users, forms, notifications  |  
| eTrak QA environment: users, orders, transactions  |  
| Workforce weekly time logs and employee notifications  |  
| SharePoint-derived task lists and financial review tasks  |  
| Rental / tenant registration with leases and payments  |  
| Metabase built-in sample data (excluded below)  |  
### 3.1 AAMStaging (SQL Server; HOA community management staging)  
| **995,603 / 251,858 / 64,203 / 150,207**  | Delinquency summaries (lot, unit address, balance, 30/60/90 aging), delinquency details (Demand Fee / Notice of Lien, property names), collection records, …

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About direwolf

Direwolf is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2025 with primarily financial motivations, having targeted 71 known victims across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, with no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, though their targeting patterns indicate a focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and transportation/logistics sectors across Malaysia, the United States, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan. No major high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware demands have been publicly attributed to this group by CISA, FBI, or established security researchers such as Mandiant. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, their current operational status and long-term threat posture remain unclear, requiring continued monitoring by the cybersecurity community to establish a more comprehensive threat profile. The group has been linked to 96 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 27, 2025; most recent post August 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DIRE WOLF.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 15, 2026AAM:HOA Management listed by direwolfon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by direwolf

direwolf has been linked to 96 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full direwolf dossier →

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, AAM:HOA Management is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by direwolf means AAM:HOA Management 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 direwolf'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.