Was Reynolds & Reynolds hit by ransomware?

Reynolds & Reynolds was listed by the pear 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 pear ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Reynolds & Reynolds breach?

pear published data attributed to Reynolds & Reynolds. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Reynolds & Reynolds

Claimed by Pear · listed 10 months ago

10m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 14, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Pear
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 14, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Reynolds and Reynolds is a leading U.S.-based provider of automotive retailing solutions, offering dealer management systems (DMS), CRM, finance and insurance tools, document services, and AI-powered analytics to automotive dealerships. The company operates nationally and serves a broad range of franchised and independent auto dealers. Its product suite spans sales, service, parts, business office, and compliance functions.

Industry: Automotive Dealership Management & Retailing Technology
Employees: 5000+
Founded: 1866

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely announced), and Reynolds & Reynolds processes sensitive dealership data including finance, HR/payroll, and customer PII at scale across thousands of automotive dealerships nationwide. While specific data types confirmed in the leak are not enumerated, the breadth of sensitive data the company handles — including financial contracts, personal customer data, and HR records — warrants a high severity classification.

The ransomware group 'pear' claims to have published data belonging to Reynolds and Reynolds, with the disclosure status listed as 'data_published,' indicating exfiltration and public release of company data. No ransom amount or specific data volume has been stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Dealership management data
Customer relationship management records
Finance and insurance documents
Payroll and human resources data
Digital document storage files
eContracting records
Parts inventory and pricing data
Business office records

What the group claims

Leading provider of automotive retailing solutions that help manage and improve dealership

Sources

Victim sitereyrey.com
Leak posthttp://pearsmob5sn44ismokiusuld34pnfwi6ctgin3qbvonpoob4lh3rmtqd.onion/Companies/reyrey

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 105 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post July 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 14, 2025Reynolds & Reynolds listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by pear

pear has been linked to 105 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 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Reynolds & Reynolds is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by pear means Reynolds & Reynolds 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 pear'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.