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Color Communications LLC

Claimed by Secp0 · listed 4 months ago

4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 29, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Secp0
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Color Communications, LLC (CCI) is a Chicago-based manufacturer of color marketing materials and tools for the paint and coating industries. They specialize in color chips, cards, fan decks, and color replication services, serving major paint companies globally with a reported 99% first-time approval rate.

Industry
Color Marketing Materials & Paint Coatings
Address
4000 West Fillmore Street, Chicago, Illinois 60624, USA

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of large-scale personal data (4,500+ individuals) and extensive organizational records (5,500+ entities). The scale and nature of exposed data (PII at scale plus business records) warrants high severity despite lack of stated regulatory classification.

The secp0 group claims to have exfiltrated over 200,000 files containing sensitive information on more than 4,500 individuals and over 5,500 organizations from Color Communications LLC. The data has been published.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Personal information on 4,500+ individuals
  • Business data on 5,500+ organizations
  • Over 200,000 files

What the group claims

The exposed dataset includes over 200,000 unique files containing sensitive information on more than 4,500 individuals and over 5,500 organizations...

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About secp0

secp0 is a newly emerged ransomware group first observed in March 2025, appearing to be financially motivated based on their operational pattern. Given the extremely limited public documentation and recent emergence, specific details about their country of origin, group affiliations, or operational model remain unknown to security researchers. Based on available incident data, the group has demonstrated capability to compromise technology sector targets within the United States, though their specific attack vectors, toolsets, and extortion methodologies have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware payments have been publicly attributed to this group at this time. The group appears to be in early operational stages with minimal public visibility, making comprehensive threat assessment challenging due to limited available intelligence from established cybersecurity organizations. The group has been linked to 6 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 14, 2025; most recent post April 29, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 29, 2026Color Communications LLC listed by secp0on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by secp0

secp0 has been linked to 6 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 3,577 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Color Communications LLC is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by secp0 means Color Communications LLC 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 secp0'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.