Was hiqbio.com hit by ransomware?

hiqbio.com was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (United States), 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 safepay ransomware group?

safepay is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the hiqbio.com breach?

safepay published data attributed to hiqbio.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

Hi-Q Marine Biotech International Ltd.

listed as hiqbio.com · Claimed by Safepay · listed 6 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 12, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Oct 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hi-Q Marine Biotech International Ltd. is a Taiwanese biotechnology and food company headquartered in Taipei that develops marine-derived health products and nutritional supplements. The company specializes in brown-algae-based bioactive compounds and proprietary extraction technologies, with product lines spanning human health, animal health, cosmetics, and sustainable aquaculture. It also operates proprietary fish farming facilities using eco-friendly cultivation methods.

Industry: Biotechnology & Functional Foods
Address: No. 123-1, Section 4, Bade Road, Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post is informational only with no confirmed data exfiltration, encryption, or operational impact. Proof materials are not yet published ('link will be added soon'), and no specific compromised data is described.

The leak post provides company background information but does not explicitly state what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or claimed to be compromised. The post notes 'The link will be added soon,' suggesting proof materials or further disclosure details are pending.

low

What the group claims

The company focuses on applying marine biotechnology to human health, animal health, functional foods and sustainable aquaculture. Its official website …

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Hi-Q Marine Biotech International Ltd. (中華海洋生技股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese biotechnology and food company headquartered in Songshan District, Taipei.
The company focuses on applying marine biotechnology to human health, animal health, functional foods and sustainable aquaculture. Its official website describes its activities as extending “from the ocean to everyday life,” with products and technologies developed from marine biological resources.A major part of Hi-Q's business involves the development of brown-algae-based nutritional and health products. The company develops products using proprietary extraction technologies designed to obtain bioactive compounds and polysaccharides from marine algae. Its portfolio includes nutritional supplements for humans as well as products containing its OliFuco® and Fucobalan® ingredients for animal health.
The link will be added soon.

Sources

Victim sitehiqbio.com
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion/blog/post/hiqbiocom/

Source

Indexed 6 hours ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

Is this your supplier? Your competitor? You?

Pro plans monitor your domain, corporate emails, and crypto wallets across every new ransomware leak-site post, breach dump and Telegram callout — alerts within 5 minutes.

Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 909 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post October 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 12, 2026hiqbio.com listed by safepay on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 909 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full safepay dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,610 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, hiqbio.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means hiqbio.com 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on safepay'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.