Epoch Times
About the organisation
[AI generated] Epoch Times is an American media company founded in 2000 by Chinese-American Falun Gong practitioners. It operates newspapers, websites, and video content across multiple countries, publishing in numerous languages. The company covers news, politics, health, and culture, but has drawn scrutiny from researchers and platforms for spreading misinformation and promoting far-right narratives. It is headquartered in New York, USA.
What the listing means
Epoch Times appeared on the coinbasecartel leak site on 15 April 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 4 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Epoch Times as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on epochtimes.com, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Consumer Services organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/RXBvY2ggVGltZXNAY29pbmJhc2VjYXJ0ZWw=
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.
