Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,858 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 15, 2026Foot Solutions listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Foot Solutions is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Foot Solutions

Claimed by qilin · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 15, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: May 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Foot Solutions is a US-based specialty retail franchise with locations also in Ireland, UK, Australia, Canada, and Quebec, focused on foot wellness for over 20 years. The company offers custom orthotics (including 3D-printed in-house), arch supports, and healthy footwear, conducting comprehensive foot and gait analyses at retail locations. It serves thousands of medical referrals annually and operates a franchise model across multiple countries.

Industry: Specialty Retail – Foot Health & Custom Orthotics

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the group (data_published status), indicating confirmed exfiltration. As a foot health and orthotics provider serving medical referrals, the company likely holds health-related customer PII, elevating sensitivity. No specific data inventory was published but the combination of confirmed publication and health-adjacent consumer data warrants a high severity rating.

The Qilin ransomware group claims an attack on Foot Solutions with a disclosed status of 'data_published', indicating data has been exfiltrated and released. No specific data volume or ransom demand was stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer personal information
Medical/foot health records
Franchise business records
Employee data
Financial records

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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