Was premiersurfacesinc hit by ransomware?

premiersurfacesinc was listed by the Lynx 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 Lynx ransomware group?

Lynx 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 premiersurfacesinc breach?

Lynx published data attributed to premiersurfacesinc. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Premier Surfaces Inc.

listed as premiersurfacesinc · Claimed by Lynx · listed 1 year ago

$5.2M

Ransom

demanded

11m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 28, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Jul 28, 2025
Ransom demanded: $5.2M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Premier Surfaces Inc. is a manufacturer's representative and supplier of industrial high-performance coatings, fireproofing, wood coatings, spray equipment, and concrete floor grinders. Operating across California, Nevada, and New Mexico, the company serves industrial clients requiring protective coatings and equipment.

Industry: Industrial Coatings & Spray Equipment Distribution
Address: 205 N. Aspan Ave #5, Azusa, CA

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data exfiltration claimed with published disclosure status, but the post does not specify sensitive data categories (PII, financial, customer lists). No proof files or operational impact mentioned. Business data exposure without confirmed sensitive/regulated data suggests medium severity.

Lynx claims to have exfiltrated data from Premier Surfaces Inc. The group post references revenue information and corporate structure but does not explicitly detail what data categories were stolen or confirm encryption of systems.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

revenue information
corporate records

What the group claims

Premier Surfaces revenue information is not publicly available. Premier Surfaces is a countertop fabricator and installer, and while it was acquired by Clio Holdings in 2017, its specific revenue figures are not disclosed. Some sources provide company information, including Premier Surface Group LLC, which reports $5.2 million in revenue on RocketReach and Premier Surface & Supply LLC, which reports $1M - $5M on seamless.ai. However, these are separate entities from the Premier Surfaces that was acquired by Clio Holdings

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Lynx

Lynx is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid scaling capabilities with 397 documented victims within their first few months of operation. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting patterns suggest a sophisticated operation that may operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on their victim distribution, Lynx appears to employ broad-spectrum targeting methodologies focusing heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Australia representing their primary geographic targets, while concentrating their attacks on manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation/logistics sectors, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not yet been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have gained significant public attention from law enforcement agencies or established threat intelligence firms. As of late 2024, Lynx appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or operational changes. The group has been linked to 414 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 28, 2025premiersurfacesinc listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $5.2M

Other recent disclosures by Lynx

Lynx has been linked to 414 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, premiersurfacesinc is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lynx means premiersurfacesinc 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 Lynx'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.