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Villas Litchfield Park

bd_4c30c6ceb3e41d29 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 16, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 records

Confidence

50%

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: OtherDiscovered: 2026-09-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We have locked out The manager and staff. Time to negotiate now we are extending the day to September 22 2026 at 3:00pm to get it figured out. What we have is real. [REDACTED-EMAIL] [REDACTED-EMAIL] Everyone is locked out and we possess the data below - Physical-to-Digital Key Maps (Reports) - Property Intelligence & Vulnerability Logs (HandyTrac Key Control.pdf) - Employee Identity & Credential Data (Employees) - Financial & Vendor Records (Open_and_closed_Invoices) - Administrative Portal Control (Dashboard / Administration) This is not a joke or a bluff it's a sign of a corporate disaster. proof of lockout: http://sdwbyttda4uzwdffbt4m7niuodiwhcgmkyxqg5nly2bjxqa6xtbe3fyd.onion/locked_out.jpg we turned off all those and deleted it. url: http://sdwbyttda4uzwdffbt4m7niuodiwhcgmkyxqg5nly2bjxqa6xtbe3fyd.onion/everyones_lockedout.png no on that new one it doesn't show Website Logins now everyone is locked out. Read the emails ceo, privacy email, and manager and staff that we sent you a week ago.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 16, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 2 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

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 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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