On March 14, 2024, engineering and surveying firm McKim & Creed was listed on the LockBit 3.0 ransomware leak site. The LockBit3 operators claimed to have exfiltrated internal files during a ransomware attack on the employee-owned company, which maintains offices across North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. Anyone whose personal or professional data touched the firm’s systems may now be at risk.
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Reported Details from the Listing
The LockBit 3.0 leak page states that McKim & Creed suffered a ransomware intrusion in which attackers successfully exfiltrated internal files. The disclosure does not quantify how many records were taken, list specific data types beyond “internal files,” or provide a ransom demand or payment deadline. The entry simply states that data was stolen and is now hosted on the group’s onion site for anyone to download. Public mirrors of the leak site, such as ransomware.live, preserve the original post dated March 14, 2024.
Why This Matters for You and Your Family
If you or a family member have worked with McKim & Creed as an employee, client, vendor, or job applicant, your information may sit inside the stolen files. Engineering and surveying firms routinely handle names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial details, project contracts, and correspondence. Once those records leave the company’s control, they can appear on dark-web markets within weeks. A single exposed email-password pair or SSN can trigger tax fraud, loan applications in your name, or spear-phishing campaigns aimed at your household.
Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risks
Stolen internal files often contain spreadsheets that link employee names to personal phone numbers, home addresses, and sometimes family-member references. Attackers and subsequent buyers can chain this data with usernames discovered in the same documents, creating detailed profiles. These profiles frequently surface on doxxing forums and are used to harass, impersonate, or extort. Credential leaks of this nature also cascade into gaming accounts; children’s usernames or parent-linked emails reused across platforms become easy targets for takeover, further exposing the household.