Ransomware victim disclosure

Kennedy, McLaughlin & Associates

Claimed by qilin · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 28, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: AU
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kennedy McLaughlin is an independent accounting and business advisory firm established in 1930 in Brisbane, Australia. The firm provides financial reporting, compliance, superannuation, management and taxation consultancy services to clients.

Industry: Accounting & Business Advisory Services
Address: Suite 11 Portman Place, 220 Boundary St, Spring Hill QLD 4000, Australia
Founded: 1930

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status suggests confirmed exfiltration, but absence of leak post details, proof files, or data inventory descriptions prevents higher classification. Professional services firm likely handles sensitive client financial and tax records.

No leak post content provided. Disclosed status indicates data was published, but specific claims about encryption, exfiltration, or data types are unavailable.

medium

What the group claims

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,890 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 28, 2026Kennedy, McLaughlin & Associates listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,642 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kennedy, McLaughlin & Associates is reported in AU, a country with 155 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.