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Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction

Claimed by GLOBAL SECRET · listed 7 days ago

23.2 GB (47,193 Files, 8,323 Folders)
Data size
47193 files records
7d
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 11, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
GLOBAL SECRET
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Construction Management
Listed on leak site
Aug 11, 2026
Data size
23.2 GB (47,193 Files, 8,323 Folders)
Records
47193 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction is an award-winning design/build home remodeling firm based in Phoenix, Arizona, operating since 1979. They specialize in kitchen and bathroom remodeling, whole-house renovations, and outdoor living spaces, serving the East Phoenix Valley region with emphasis on universal design and green building practices.

Industry
Home Remodeling & Custom Construction
Address
100 W. Hoover Ave. #12, Mesa, AZ 85210
Employees
11-50
Founded
1979

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of substantial data volume (23.2 GB) from a small business; likely contains client PII and project details. No proof files advertised and no operational disruption claimed, but scale and nature of remodeling firm data suggests moderate sensitivity.

GLOBAL SECRET claims to have exfiltrated 23.2 GB of company data comprising 47,193 files and 8,323 folders. The group has listed the company on their leak site but no specific details on data categories or operational disruption are disclosed.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • business records
  • project files
  • client information
  • financial records
  • internal documents

What the group claims

Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction is an award-winning design/build home remodeling firm based in Phoenix, Arizona, with nearly 50 years of experience. They specialize in kitchen and bathroom remodeling, whole-house renovations, and outdoor living spaces, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. The company emphasizes a personalized approach, helping clients through every step of the renovation process while leveraging their expertise in universal design and green building. Their services cater to homeowners in various East Phoenix Valley cities, aiming to enhance the unique stories of each home.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Country: Arizona, United States Website: cookremodeling.com | Revenue: $5 Million | Industry: Construction Management | Employees: 11-50 Properties: 23.2 GB (47,193 Files, 8,323 Folders)
Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction is an award-winning design/build home remodeling firm based in Phoenix, Arizona, with nearly 50 years of experience. They specialize in kitchen and bathroom remodeling, whole-house renovations, and outdoor living spaces, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. The company emphasizes a personalized approach, helping clients through every step of the renovation process while leveraging their expertise in universal design and green building. Their services cater to homeowners in various East Phoenix Valley cities, aiming to enhance the unique stories of each home.
RELEASE: Aug 11, 2026 — 12:00 UTC

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction

Sources

Source

Indexed 7 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 11, 2026Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction listed by GLOBAL SECRETon the group's public leak site
Data size
23.2 GB (47,193 Files, 8,323 Folders)
Records
47193 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 Construction Management sector. Geographically, Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction 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 Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction 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.

Cook Remodeling & Custom Construction data breach — GLOBAL SECRET ransomware attack (2026) · Darkfield