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Eyemart Express

bd_aecf969a43db5794 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 19, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

15 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Eyemart Express

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Payoutsking 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: 2026-04-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Eyemart Express is a United States-based retail optical chain specializing in prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas, the company operates hundreds of stores across the country. It offers eye exams, frames, and lenses with an emphasis on fast turnaround times. Eyemart Express competes in the optical retail industry alongside brands like LensCrafters and Visionworks.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 19, 2026

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 15 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filingsup to 166d gap

Showing first 10 of 14 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Feb 19, last Aug 4 (OR) — a 166-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 14 — the full spread may be wider.

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.

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 2025-04-17

payoutsking

According to ransomware.live, PayoutsKing is an active ransomware group observed through at least 2026 that has claimed attacks against a wide range of industries internationally — including Del Monte Foods and V. FRAAS — across the US, UK, Germany, and Ireland using standard double-extortion tactics.

110 victims claimed globally110 tracked hereFull profile →