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John Engel Team

bd_270d3ea4adc7d09c · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Sep 10, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for John Engel Team

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shadowbyt3$ 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: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-09-10

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Contact us and negotiate. Don't be like the other real estate companies we have breached. We have serious data which contains the following below. Also we have a image url too to show you that we are not bluffing negotiate and we will remove your name and show you all the proof you want. url: http://sdwbyttda4uzwdffbt4m7niuodiwhcgmkyxqg5nly2bjxqa6xtbe3fyd.onion/invoice.png Data Compromised: the leak contains 0.014 million contacts (exactly 14,476 unique customer records). The following was stolen 1. Complete Identity and Client Databases (14,476 Total Profiles) The extraction completely drains the brokerage team's customer network, divided into three distinct lifecycle tables: - 10,993 Nurtured Contacts: - 3,306 Archived Contacts: - 177 Awaiting Nurture Contacts: The fresh pipeline of new inquiries, open-house visitors, and active 30-day leads. 2. Deep Behavioral Tracking & Psychological Analytics For every single one of those 14,476 profiles, We stole exact behavioral history and intent metrics, including: - Predictive Intent Metrics: scout score and score change counters that signal exactly when a high-net-worth client is getting ready to purchase. - Direct Interaction Metrics: Explicit lists of Homes Viewed, Homes Interested (properties starred or liked), Home Value Alert Views, and Market Activity Alert Views. - Communication Analytics: Logs of Email receives, Email opens, email clicks, email rejects, and system Errors mapping out exactly how responsive a customer is to digital alerts. 3. Corporate Financial and Transaction Data - 40 Invoice PDFs: A localized batch of billing records detailing contractual pricing, vendor relationships, and enterprise account balances. - Corporate Payment Method: Active account billing profiles, explicitly exposing a corporate Visa card ending in 8265 with an expiration date of 01/29. 4. Direct Brand Impersonation Asse

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 10, 2026

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.

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About this groupFirst seen 2026-02-17

shadowbyt3$

According to ransomware.live, ShadowByt3$ is a ransomware-as-a-service group first observed in October 2025, using multi-method extortion and communicating via Telegram and Tox, with a very small confirmed victim list suggesting it remains in early-stage operation.

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