Disclosure context

About Hunters International

Hunters International is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating rapid expansion in their victim targeting across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on publicly available victim data, Hunters International has demonstrated a preference for targeting business services, technology, and manufacturing sectors, with their attacks primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, limiting detailed analysis of their initial access vectors, encryption methods, or data exfiltration practices. With 388 documented victims since their emergence, the group has shown consistent activity levels, though specific high-profile campaigns or notable ransom demands have not been widely reported in public threat intelligence reports. As of current reporting, Hunters International appears to remain active with no documented law enforcement disruptions or operational changes reported by major cybersecurity agencies. The group has been linked to 388 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 20, 2023; most recent post March 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Hunters.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 27, 2026Pathstone Family Office, LLC listed by Hunters Internationalon the group's public leak site

Records: 641K records

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Pathstone Family Office, LLC is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Pathstone Family Office, LLC

Claimed by Hunters International · listed 3 months ago

641K records

Records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Hunters International
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 27, 2026
Records: 641K records

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pathstone Family Office, LLC is a registered investment advisory and family office services firm based in the United States. The firm provides comprehensive wealth management, tax planning, estate planning, and investment advisory services to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. It operates across multiple offices in the U.S. and serves a client base of wealthy families and institutional clients.

Industry: Wealth Management & Family Office Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Over 641,000 records of PII have been exfiltrated from a wealth management and family office firm, which by nature holds highly sensitive regulated financial data, investment portfolios, tax records, and personal information belonging to high-net-worth individuals — constituting large-scale exfiltration of regulated financial and personal data.

Hunters International claims to have exfiltrated over 641,000 records containing personally identifiable information and internal corporate data from Pathstone Family Office, LLC, issuing a final warning deadline of 2 March 2026 before publishing the data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personally identifiable information (PII)
Internal corporate data
Client records

What the group claims

Over 641k records containing PII and other internal corporate data have been compromised. This is a final warning to reach out by 2 Mar 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | Updated: 27 Feb 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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