2026 Highwoods Properties — Helix leak-site claim (unverified)
Data compromised
Actor listing names Highwoods Properties (highwoods.com), United States. No data-type inventory or record count published or independently validated — unverified.
Technical writeup
Unverified ransomware / extortion leak-site claim — Helix published a listing naming Highwoods Properties on August 7, 2026, tracked by ransomware.live. Highwoods Properties is a public office REIT, where tenant, lease and employee records would be the plausible holdings. At indexing time no statement from the organisation, no regulator filing and no reputable trade-press confirmation of data theft had been published, and the listing carried no attested record count, so recordsAffected is 0 and the row is labelled unverified. Leak-site listings prove a claim of access, not confirmed theft or impact. Update if the organisation confirms an incident or a regulator publishes a notice.
Root cause
Unverified Helix ransomware/extortion leak-site listing naming Highwoods Properties — the organisation had not confirmed any incident at indexing time.