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Artists&Clients

Claimed by Lunalock · listed 11 months ago

10m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 2, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lunalock
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Media & Entertainment
Listed on leak site
Sep 2, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Artists&Clients (artistsnclients.com) appears to be an online platform connecting artists with clients, likely facilitating commission-based artwork transactions. The platform hosts user accounts and artwork submissions. No additional public site content was available to confirm scale or headquarters.

Industry
Online Artist & Client Marketplace

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims confirmed exfiltration of user PII at an unspecified scale alongside source code, with data already stated as published ('data_published' status). The additional threat of submitting user artwork to AI training datasets compounds reputational and IP harm to affected users.

The lunalock group claims to have stolen and encrypted all data from the Artists&Clients website, threatening to publicly release source code, user personal data, and submit hosted artwork to AI training datasets if the ransom is not paid.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • User personal data
  • Website source code
  • Artwork/creative content
  • User account information

What the group claims

We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data. If you are a user of this website, you are urged to contact the owners and insist that they pay our ransom. If the ransom is not paid, we will release all data publicly on this Tor site, including source code and personal data of users. Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets.

Sources

Source

Indexed 11 months ago

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Disclosure context

About lunalock

LunaLock is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in September 2025, appearing to be financially motivated based on their limited operational footprint. The group's country of origin and potential affiliations remain unknown due to their recent emergence and limited public documentation. With only two documented victims to date, LunaLock appears to primarily target telecommunications infrastructure, with attacks recorded in the United States and Mexico, though their specific attack methodology, encryption techniques, and whether they employ data exfiltration tactics have not been publicly documented by major security research organizations. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware demands have been reported for this group, and no law enforcement actions have been publicly disclosed. LunaLock appears to remain active as of late 2025, though their limited victim count and recent emergence make it difficult to assess their long-term operational capabilities or intentions. The group has been linked to 2 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 2, 2025; most recent post September 16, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 2, 2025Artists&Clients listed by lunalockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lunalock

lunalock has been linked to 2 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 Media & Entertainment sector, which has 97 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Artists&Clients is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lunalock means Artists&Clients 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 lunalock'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.