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Livable (BayView Real Estate)

listed as BayView Real Estate · Claimed by ShadowByt3$ · listed 2 days ago

2d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 29, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
ShadowByt3$
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site
Aug 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Livable operates a property management (PM) platform serving residential real estate operators. The company provides tenant billing, utility cost allocation, lease management, and resident portal services across multiple US states including California and Washington. BayView Real Estate appears to be a major customer or operator using Livable's platform.

Industry
Real Estate Property Management Software & Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of significant PII (named admin staff), operational infrastructure details, and widespread tenant financial/personal data (billing records, lease documents, account configurations). Real estate property management systems hold sensitive tenant PII at scale. Publication of admin credentials, internal workflows, and legal templates enables follow-on attacks and impersonation. Operational impact to a critical residential services platform.

ShadowByt3$ claims to have breached Livable's pm.livable.com platform and exfiltrated 216.6 MB of operational and tenant data. The group alleges theft of admin profiles, financial databases, internal training materials, tenant communication templates, lease documents, and utility billing frameworks. Data has been published across multiple mirrors.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Administrator account profiles (6 named employees)
  • Financial databases and building statement reports
  • Multi-property accounting records
  • Internal corporate handbooks and operational manuals
  • Software integration guides (AppFolio, Yardi)
  • Training videos (100+ MB, portal navigation tutorials)
  • Tenant communication templates and billing scripts
  • Branding graphics and email templates
  • Legal lease documents and addenda
  • Utility billing frameworks by region
  • Delinquency notification templates
  • Tenant lists and CSV exports

What the group claims

Guess your too busy focusing on your clients then changing password and protecting your clients. We breached them through pm.livable.com. You can see screenshots and file tree in the proof section. Also bleepingcomputer we will send you the data so you can confirm it too. Were not bluffing BayView Real Estate guess you guys didn't learn your lesson from the 26 million lawsuit but now you will. The following data was stolen: 1. Corporate Identity and Admin Profiles 6 Individual Administrator Profiles: Complete web profile exports, account configurations, and visible permission mappings for six active employees: - Breanna Tiu - Diana Nguyen - Elise Hou - Jeanne David - Wendy Wu - Zhen Deng 2. High-Density Financial Database Dumping - Building Statement Reports: The core database extraction file (Building-nK37xrmRYcoCMHymv-statements-report.pdf - Sample Distribution Summaries: Multi-property accounting records detailing exactly how utility expenses are balanced and divided across real estate assets (including specialized trackers for 394 Midway Street). 3. Operational Infrastructure & Platform Playbooks - Internal Corporate Handbooks: Step-by-step business guides detailing how money is processed and collected: -  Bill & Collect: Manuals for handling payments routed directly through Livable's platform. - Convergent: Frameworks detailing workflows where tenants pay the property group directly. - Software Integration Guides: Training documentation teaching personnel how to map customer data tables between platforms: - AppFolio ID and Charges mapping logs - Yardi system integration guides Complete Video Tutorial Playbooks: Over 100 MB of internal instructional videos teaching how to navigate the portal, manage profiles, and export tenant lists: - 01 PM Portal Intro - 02 How to Setup a Tenant's Account - 03 How to Access the Tenant's Account - 04 How to Access the Allocation Table - 05 Move Out Processing - 06 Export tenant charges and download CSV files - PM Portal Training - Portfolio Overview & Building Profile - PM Portal Training - Resident Profile & Allocation Tables - PM Portal Training - Utility Recovery Proforma, Add a Building, Export Monthly Tenant Charges 4. Tenant Communication Scripts & Branding Graphics - Official Digital Graphics: High-resolution templates used by the company for onboarding and platform access: - Bill & Collect Welcome Email interface maps - Convergent Welcome Email branding templates - Resident Portal dashboard graphical layouts - Physical Outreach Letters: Word and PDF versions of letters sent directly to tenants regarding payments and billing statuses: - Bill & Collect / Convergent / Net Zero Billing Tenant Welcome Letters - Delinquency Template notification forms - Physical Billing Statements and Net Zero Statement layouts 5. Legal Leases & Regional Utility Addenda - 30-Day Notice Templates: Legally binding notification documents used to alter tenant agreements (30 Day Notice_Billing Method Change, Notice of Supplier Change, and Notice of Supplier and Allocation Formula Change). - Geographic Lease Addenda Collections: Specific legal attachments containing the rules and formulas for utility billing across different municipal districts: - California Addenda (including localized frameworks for Hayward and Los Angeles) - National Utility Addenda / US Addenda (including localized parameters for Seattle) - Exhibit B - Submetered Water regulatory documents - Lease Addendum Guide instructional packets Uncompressed size: 216653153 bytes(216.6 MB) compressed size: 78.0MB mirror 1: https://pixeldrain.com/u/pc8VfBLf mirror 2: https://fex.net/s/vydmesb

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in February 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on its ransomware operations. The group's country of origin and any potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited intelligence available on this newly identified threat actor. Given the minimal public documentation available, the group's attack methodology, tools, and operational tactics have not been sufficiently analyzed or reported by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. No notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, with only one known victim reported to date and no specific sector targeting patterns identified. The current operational status of ShadowByt3$ remains unclear due to the limited intelligence available on this recently emerged and relatively unknown ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 23 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2026; most recent post August 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 29, 2026BayView Real Estate listed by ShadowByt3$on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ has been linked to 23 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 Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, BayView Real Estate is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ShadowByt3$ means BayView Real Estate 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 ShadowByt3$'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.