Was MEDIALAB hit by ransomware?

MEDIALAB was listed by the Payouts King 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 Payouts King ransomware group?

Payouts King 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 MEDIALAB breach?

Payouts King published data attributed to MEDIALAB, around 60M users records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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MediaLab 3D Solutions

listed as MEDIALAB · Claimed by Payouts King · listed 1 year ago

60M users

Records

12m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 15, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Jul 15, 2025
Records: 60M users

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MediaLab 3D Solutions is a digital marketing and content creation company specializing in visual design and marketing solutions. They focus on serving homebuilders and consumer products brands with tailored marketing strategies and 3D visual content creation, with over 25 years of experience in the homebuilder sector.

Industry: Digital Marketing & 3D Visual Content Services

Attack summary

Severity: low — No concrete proof files, screenshots, or data samples provided. The leak post appears to be placeholder/AI-generated content mismatched to the actual victim. No specific operational impact or data categories confirmed.

The ransomware group claims to have compromised MediaLab. The leak post provided is AI-generated boilerplate describing a different MediaLab entity (a tech conglomerate with brands like Whisper, Kik, Datpiff) rather than the actual victim MediaLab 3D Solutions. No specific data exfiltration or encryption claims are detailed.

low

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

MediaLab is a tech company that owns and operates a portfolio of leading digital brands, including Whisper, Kik, Datpiff, Worldstar Hip Hop, among others. Their brands serve over 60 million users every month. They focus on acquiring, investing in, and building sustainable, user-centric, data-driven, and mobile-first internet properties.

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 15, 2025MEDIALAB listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Records: 60M users

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, MEDIALAB is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means MEDIALAB 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 Payouts King'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.