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Preferred Homes Realty

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 9, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Preferred Homes Realty

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Pear on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Consumer ServicesDiscovered: 2025-08-05

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

To Preferred Homes Realty you will find a wide variety of useful information and resources designed to help you buy or sell a home more effectively in the Elgin, South Elgin, West Dundee, Bartlett, Huntley, Hampshire, Gilberts, St. Charles, Geneva and other towns in the Fox Valley Area

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 9, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-08-18

pear

According to ransomware.live, Pure Extraction And Ransom (PEAR) Team is the community of highly responsible and strictly disciplined members. We are a private team and have nothing common with any other threat actors. We've been monitoring this field for a long-long time. So, we understand all the processes and know well how it all works.

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