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Time Equities

Claimed by Payouts King · listed 9 months ago

8m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 29, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Payouts King
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Oct 29, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Time Equities, Inc. is a globally diversified real estate investment and development firm founded in 1966 and headquartered in New York City. The company focuses on acquisition, asset management, brokerage, development, and renewable energy, managing over 43 million square feet of property across 30+ U.S. states, Canada, Europe, and other countries. With approximately 190 employees and over $7 billion in total asset value, it operates across residential, office, retail, industrial, and hotel property types.

Industry
Real Estate Investment & Development
Address
New York City, New York, United States
Employees
190
Founded
1966

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data is listed as published (data_published) by the threat actor. Time Equities manages over $7B in assets and handles investor relations, mortgage brokerage, and tenant financial data, meaning published data likely includes significant financial and business-sensitive information at scale. The breadth of operations and investor/tenant PII exposure elevates this above medium.

The group 'payoutsking' claims to have compromised Time Equities and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post provides no explicit detail on whether encryption or exfiltration occurred, nor the volume or nature of the data exposed.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Real estate investment records
  • Investor relations data
  • Financial services/mortgage brokerage documents
  • Property management records
  • Employee information
  • Tenant records

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Time Equities is a globally diversified real estate firm, founded in 1966, based in New York City. The company focuses on 3 main aspects: acquisition, development, and management of properties. It handles a variety of types, ranging from office and retail to industrial and residential. They have properties in 30 states in the US, as well as in Europe and Canada.

Sources

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 29, 2025Time Equities listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Time Equities is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means Time Equities 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 Payouts King'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.