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Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Kansas City Homes

listed as Kansas City Homes · Claimed by Blackbyte · listed 4 years ago

42m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 5, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbyte
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Real Estate
Listed on leak site
Jan 5, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Kansas City Homes is an independently owned and operated real estate franchise affiliated with the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate brand, serving the greater Kansas City metropolitan area across Missouri and Kansas. The brokerage has operated for over four decades, offering residential property buying, selling, and relocation services. Its main office is located in Overland Park, Kansas.

Industry
Residential Real Estate Brokerage
Address
8300 College Blvd, Ste 130, Overland Park, KS 66210

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by BlackByte, indicating successful exfiltration. A real estate brokerage handles significant volumes of client PII, financial transaction data, and personally identifiable information related to home buyers and sellers, elevating severity beyond medium.

BlackByte claims to have compromised Kansas City Homes and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data, though no specific ransom amount or precise data volume was stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Client relationship records
  • Property listings data
  • Agent and staff information
  • Business communications
  • Relocation service records

What the group claims

From our earliest days in Kansas City, we have remained brokerage leaders in the real estate industry by developing relationships with our clients and our communities. The Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate brand was built upon a passion for the home. Sellers benefit from this well-known brand through the exposure generated by millions of home searches online and the inherent trust of the iconic brand.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Blackbyte

BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in October 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through double extortion tactics targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group is suspected to operate from Russia or former Soviet states based on their use of Russian-language forums and avoidance of targeting organizations in Commonwealth of Independent States countries, though they maintain no confirmed links to other established ransomware families. BlackByte operators typically gain initial access through vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of remote desktop protocol (RDP) services, employing tools such as Cobalt Strike for lateral movement and data exfiltration before deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses AES-256 encryption with RSA-2048 key protection. The group has demonstrated particular focus on critical infrastructure sectors, with the FBI and CISA issuing joint advisories in February 2022 highlighting attacks against organizations in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and education sectors, including notable incidents affecting San Francisco's transportation authority and multiple healthcare systems across the United States. BlackByte remains active as of 2024, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their leak site for publishing stolen data from victims who refuse to pay ransoms. The group has been linked to 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 4, 2021; most recent post July 30, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 5, 2023Kansas City Homes listed by Blackbyteon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Blackbyte

Blackbyte has been linked to 147 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Blackbyte dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Real Estate sector, which has 91 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kansas City Homes is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Blackbyte means Kansas City Homes 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 Blackbyte'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.