Was Dixons Allerton Academy hit by ransomware?

Dixons Allerton Academy was listed by the hive ransomware operation (United Kingdom), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the hive ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Dixons Allerton Academy breach?

hive published data attributed to Dixons Allerton Academy. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Dixons Allerton Academy

Claimed by Hive · listed 4 years ago

43m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 20, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hive
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Dec 20, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Dixons Allerton Academy (formerly Rhodesway Academy) is a coeducational all-through school and sixth form located in the Allerton area of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It serves pupils from primary through to sixth-form age as part of the Dixons Academies Trust. The school is a publicly funded academy operating within the UK state education sector.

Industry: Primary & Secondary Education (K-12)
Address: Allerton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely threatened), and a school environment almost certainly holds regulated personal data including minors' records, staff PII, and potentially safeguarding/welfare information — categories that are sensitive under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

The Hive ransomware group claims to have attacked Dixons Allerton Academy and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of school data, though specific data categories and volume are not detailed in the truncated leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Staff personal data
School administrative documents
Potentially sensitive educational/safeguarding records

What the group claims

Dixons Allerton Academy (formerly Rhodesway Academy) is a coeducational all-through school and sixth form located in Allerton area of the City of Bradford, in the English county of West Yorkshire.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About hive

Hive is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model to maximize their criminal enterprise's reach and profitability. The group is suspected to have origins in Eastern Europe based on their operational patterns and linguistic indicators, though definitive attribution remains unclear, and they operate independently while recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks on their behalf. Hive primarily gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses a combination of RSA and AES encryption algorithms while simultaneously exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption to enable double extortion tactics where they threaten to publish stolen information if ransom demands are not met. The group has targeted over 208 victims globally with a particular focus on manufacturing companies, business services, information technology firms, healthcare services, and internet and telecommunication services, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Indonesia, and China, including notable attacks against healthcare systems and critical infrastructure that drew significant attention from law enforcement agencies. In January 2023, the FBI announced the successful disruption of Hive's operations, seizing their dark web leak sites and decryption keys, effectively dismantling the group's infrastructure and providing free decryption tools to victims. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 20, 2022Dixons Allerton Academy listed by hiveon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by hive

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dixons Allerton Academy is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by hive means Dixons Allerton Academy appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on hive's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.