Was Turner and Townsend hit by ransomware?

Turner and Townsend was listed by the coinbasecartel ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 coinbasecartel ransomware group?

coinbasecartel 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 Turner and Townsend breach?

coinbasecartel published data attributed to Turner and Townsend. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Turner and Townsend

Claimed by Coinbasecartel · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Coinbasecartel
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Turner and Townsend is a global professional services firm headquartered in the United Kingdom, founded in 1946. The company specializes in project management, cost management, and programme management services across construction, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors, operating in over 50 countries.

Industry: Construction & Infrastructure Professional Services
Founded: 1946

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, confirming exfiltration; however, no specific sensitive data types (PII, financial records, client details) are enumerated in the leak post, and no proof files are advertised. The company's global scale and access to client project data suggests moderate sensitivity.

The group claims to have accessed Turner and Townsend's systems and published data. The specific nature of the exfiltration (data types, scope) and whether encryption occurred is not detailed in the available leak post.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Turner and Townsend is a global professional services company headquartered in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1946, it operates in the construction, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. The firm provides project management, cost management, and programme management services. It operates in over 50 countries, serving both public and private sector clients across major capital investment programmes worldwide.

Sources

Leak posthttp://fjg4zi4opkxkvdz7mvwp7h6goe4tcby3hhkrz43pht4j3vakhy75znyd.onion/companies/tandt

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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Disclosure context

About coinbasecartel

CoinbaseCartel is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025 with financially motivated operations targeting organizations across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group has demonstrated significant activity in a short timeframe, compromising at least 102 known victims primarily across the United States, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. Their targeting patterns show a preference for technology companies, financial services organizations, manufacturing entities, and consumer services businesses, suggesting an opportunistic approach focused on organizations likely to have both valuable data and the financial resources to pay ransoms. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, details regarding their specific attack methodologies, infrastructure, and organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies. The group appears to maintain active operations as of late 2025, though comprehensive analysis of their tactics, techniques, and procedures awaits further investigation and reporting by established threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 203 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 15, 2025; most recent post August 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: coinbase cartel.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 14, 2026Turner and Townsend listed by coinbasecartelon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by coinbasecartel

coinbasecartel has been linked to 203 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 Professional Services sector, which has 14 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Turner and Townsend is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 377 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by coinbasecartel means Turner and Townsend 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on coinbasecartel'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.