Was Pearce Services hit by ransomware?

Pearce Services was listed by the worldleaks 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 worldleaks ransomware group?

worldleaks 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 Pearce Services breach?

worldleaks published data attributed to Pearce Services. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Pearce Services

Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 4 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pearce Services, backed by CBRE, is a nationwide provider of mission-critical infrastructure services across telecommunications, renewable energy (solar, wind, energy storage), EV charging networks, and data centers. The company operates with thousands of technicians across North America, supporting more than 40 GW of solar, 120 GW of wind, over 60,000 EV charging stations, and tens of thousands of cell sites. It serves blue-chip clients including government and healthcare sectors with design, installation, maintenance, and rapid-response solutions.

Industry: Critical Infrastructure Services (Telecommunications, Renewable Energy & EV Charging)
Employees: 1001-5000

Attack summary

Severity: high — Pearce Services operates critical national infrastructure (telecom, renewable energy grid assets, EV charging, government and healthcare sectors) and data has been confirmed published. Exfiltration from a CBRE-backed operator supporting government and healthcare clients with tens of thousands of critical infrastructure assets constitutes significant risk of high-impact data exposure, even absent a stated data volume.

The worldleaks group claims to have published data stolen from Pearce Services, with the disclosure status listed as data_published. No specific details about encryption or the volume/type of exfiltrated data were provided in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal business data
Client/contract records
Operational infrastructure data
Employee records (inferred)

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Pearce Services is a provider of mission-critical services maintaining and repairing infrastructure for telecommunications, renewable energy, and electric vehicle (EV) charging networks. It offers specialized services including design, installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement solutions. The firm caters to blue-chip companies across the US, rendering services to help prolong the lifecycle of their infrastructure, promote network efficiency and reliability.

Sources

Victim sitepearce-services.com
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/2331039477

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 173 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 20, 2026Pearce Services listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by worldleaks

worldleaks has been linked to 173 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Pearce Services is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Pearce Services 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 worldleaks'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.