Database Tables
In early May 2025, LockBit’s dark-web admin and affiliate panel was hijacked by an anonymous actor who defaced the site with the taunt “Don’t do crime. CRIME IS BAD. xoxo from Prague” and posted a link to paneldb_dump.zip, a MySQL archive (created April 29, 2025) that exposed the inner workings of the ransomware-as-a-service operation.
The 20-table dump includes affiliate and admin accounts, thousands of negotiation transcripts, CI/CD-style build records, and a trove of bitcoin payout addresses. Independent analysts later validated the dataset’s authenticity and mined it for insights, including counts of tens of thousands of wallet addresses and evidence of standardized playbooks across affiliates. The leak, arriving about a year after law-enforcement’s Operation Cronos disruption, provided investigators, journalists, and defenders with a rare, first-party window into LockBit’s business model and money flows.