Was S****s hit by ransomware?

S****s was listed by the Payouts King 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 Payouts King ransomware group?

Payouts King is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the S****s breach?

Payouts King published data attributed to S****s. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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S****s

Claimed by Payouts King · listed 11 months ago

11m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 5, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Aug 5, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Unable to determine. The victim name is redacted ('S****s'), the clearnet site is partially obscured ('s****.com'), and no leak post or public site content was provided for analysis.

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (disclosed_status: data_published), which indicates confirmed exfiltration; however, without access to the actual leak post, proof files, or details of what data was taken, severity cannot be assessed higher. The redacted victim name and missing content prevent confirmation of data sensitivity or scale.

No leak post or supporting details were captured. The disclosed_status is 'data_published', indicating the group claims to have exfiltrated data, but specifics are unavailable.

medium

Sources

Victim sites****.com

Source

Indexed 11 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 5, 2025S****s listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, S****s is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means S****s 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 Payouts King'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.