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Baker Business & Tax Solutions

Claimed by GLOBAL SECRET · listed 5 days ago

213GB (817,209 Files, 48,866 Folders)
Data size
817209 files records
5d
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 13, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
GLOBAL SECRET
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Accounting
Listed on leak site
Aug 13, 2026
Data size
213GB (817,209 Files, 48,866 Folders)
Records
817209 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Baker Business & Tax Solutions is a family-owned accounting and tax preparation firm with two locations in Northern Kentucky (Independence and Ft. Thomas). Operating since 2015, they serve individuals and small businesses with tax preparation, payroll processing, and general accounting services, with a team claiming over 20 years of combined experience.

Industry
Accounting & Tax Preparation Services
Address
Independence, KY and Ft. Thomas, KY (2 locations); also serves Boone County, KY and Florence, KY
Employees
1-10
Founded
2015

Attack summary

Severity: high — Accounting firm breach involving large-scale exfiltration (213GB) of sensitive tax and financial records for multiple clients. Tax records and payroll data are regulated PII at scale, creating exposure for both the firm and its client base.

GLOBAL SECRET claims to have exfiltrated 213GB of data (817,209 files, 48,866 folders) from Baker Business & Tax Solutions. The group lists the breach on their leak site and is demanding a $1 ransom, indicating both data exfiltration and likely encryption of systems.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • client tax records
  • personal financial information
  • business accounting files
  • payroll data
  • client contact information

What the group claims

Baker Business & Tax Solutions is a tax preparation service with 2 locations in Independence, KY and Ft. Thomas, KY. A family-owned practice working with people to simplify their personal and business finances. Services include tax assistance and business accounting.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
# Baker Business & Tax Solutions
Country: Kentucky, United States | Website: bakerbusinessandtax.com | Revenue: $1 Million | Industry: Accounting for Legal Practices | Employees: 1-10 Employees | Properties: 213Gb (817,209 Files, 48,866 Folders)
Baker Business & Tax Solutions is a tax preparation service with 2 locations in Independence, KY and Ft. Thomas, KY. We are a family-owned practice working with people to simplify their personal and business finances to create a simpler life. Whether you need assistance with your taxes or help with your business accounting, our team of professionals is here to assist you. Contact us today to get started!

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Baker Business & Tax Solutions

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET is an active ransomware group with 19 confirmed victims as of August 2026. It operates a single onion leak site. The limited victim count suggests a relatively early or low-volume operation. The group has been linked to 33 public disclosures across our corpus. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 13, 2026Baker Business & Tax Solutions listed by GLOBAL SECRETon the group's public leak site
Data size
213GB (817,209 Files, 48,866 Folders)
Records
817209 files

Other recent disclosures by GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET has been linked to 33 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full GLOBAL SECRET dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Accounting sector. Geographically, Baker Business & Tax Solutions is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by GLOBAL SECRET means Baker Business & Tax Solutions appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 GLOBAL SECRET'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.

Baker Business & Tax Solutions data breach — GLOBAL SECRET ransomware attack (2026) · Darkfield