Was Patel hit by ransomware?

Patel was listed by the coinbasecartel 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 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 Patel breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Patel CPA Office

listed as Patel · Claimed by Coinbasecartel · listed 1 day ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 22, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Coinbasecartel
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Aug 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Patel CPA Office is a certified public accounting firm operating under the domain patelcpaoffice.com. The firm provides accounting and tax services, likely to small and medium-sized businesses and individuals.

Industry: Accounting & Tax Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — CPA firms typically handle sensitive financial and tax data (PII, tax returns, financial records). Data published status suggests exfiltration occurred, but without visible proof files or specific data inventory details, severity cannot be elevated to high. Generic listing without substantiating evidence.

The coinbasecartel group claims to have attacked Patel CPA Office. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration, or data types are provided in the available leak post excerpt.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A The name "Patel" is too generic to identify a specific company with reliable information. It is a common surname and business name used by numerous unrelated entities across many industries and countries. Please provide additional context such as the full company name, industry, or country to allow for an accurate description.

Sources

Victim sitepatelcpaoffice.com
Leak posthttp://fjg4zi4opkxkvdz7mvwp7h6goe4tcby3hhkrz43pht4j3vakhy75znyd.onion/companies/patelcpaoffice

Source

Indexed 1 day 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 219 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 15, 2025; most recent post August 23, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: coinbase cartel.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 22, 2026Patel listed by coinbasecartelon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by coinbasecartel

coinbasecartel has been linked to 219 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Patel is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by coinbasecartel means Patel 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 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.