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4M Realty

Claimed by GLOBAL SECRET · listed 1 hour ago

237 GB (54,995 Files, 4,600 Folders)
Data size
54995 files records
Today
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 18, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
GLOBAL SECRET
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Real Estate
Listed on leak site
Aug 18, 2026
Data size
237 GB (54,995 Files, 4,600 Folders)
Records
54995 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

4M Realty Company is a full-service commercial real estate brokerage based in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1983. An affiliate of 4M Properties, Inc. (a 50-year-old diversified real estate company), 4M Realty represents buyers, sellers, tenants, and investors across 44 cities and 16 states, with expertise in industrial, office, apartment, retail, and other commercial property assets.

Industry
Commercial Real Estate Brokerage
Address
6812 West Avenue, Suite 200, San Antonio, Texas 78213
Employees
20-50
Founded
1983

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Large volume of exfiltrated data (237 GB) from a real estate brokerage likely containing client PII, property details, and transaction records, but no specific sensitive data categories or operational impact confirmed in the post. No ransom demand stated.

GLOBAL SECRET claims to have exfiltrated 237 GB of company data comprising 54,995 files and 4,600 folders from 4M Realty. The leak post does not specify what data categories were targeted or state a ransom demand.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business files and documents
  • Property transaction records
  • Client information
  • Internal communications

What the group claims

4M Realty Company, a full-service real estate brokerage company, is an affiliate of 4M Properties, Inc. a San Antonio based, 41 year-old diversified real estate company which has built and managed or sold over $1 Billion dollars of commercial real estate in 44 cities and 16 states.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Country: Texas, US | Website: 4mrealty.com | Revenue: $5 Million | Industry: Real Estate Brokerage, Real Estate Sales, Property Sales, Commercial Real Estate | Employees: 20-50 | Properties: 237 GB (54,995 Files, 4,600 Folders)
4M Realty Company, a full-service real estate brokerage company, is an affiliate of 4M Properties, Inc. a San Antonio based, 41 year-old diversified real estate company which has built and managed or sold over $1 Billion dollars of commercial real estate in 44 cities and 16 states.

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for 4M Realty

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 hour ago

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Disclosure context

About GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET is an active ransomware group with 19 confirmed victims as of August 2026. It operates a single onion leak site. The limited victim count suggests a relatively early or low-volume operation. The group has been linked to 33 public disclosures across our corpus. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 18, 20264M Realty listed by GLOBAL SECRETon the group's public leak site
Data size
237 GB (54,995 Files, 4,600 Folders)
Records
54995 files

Other recent disclosures by GLOBAL SECRET

GLOBAL SECRET has been linked to 33 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full GLOBAL SECRET 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, 4M Realty is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by GLOBAL SECRET means 4M Realty appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 GLOBAL SECRET'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.