Was lopay hit by ransomware?

lopay was listed by the Black X 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 Black X ransomware group?

Black X 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 lopay breach?

Black X published data attributed to lopay. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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lopay

Claimed by Black X · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Black X
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lopay is a UK-based fintech company providing a payment platform for SMEs and sole traders. They offer point-of-sale systems, card readers, mobile payment acceptance, and an integrated expense and rewards card, positioning themselves as a low-cost alternative to competitors like SumUp and Zettle.

Industry: Financial Services / Fintech - Payment Processing

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated financial data at scale (payment card details, banking data, transaction records) affecting multiple client companies. Data involves PII and sensitive financial information subject to regulatory requirements (PCI-DSS, UK Financial Conduct Authority).

Black X claims to have exfiltrated financial data from Lopay's systems, including customer payment details, card information, banking data, transaction history, and payment terminal information belonging to client companies using the platform.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

customer payment details
card information
banking data
transaction history
payment terminal information
client company financial information

What the group claims

Lopay is a UK-based fintech company that provides a payment platform enabling small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and sole traders to accept credit card and mobile payments, as well as manage their sales and settlements. This includes financial information belonging to client companies, such as customer payment details, card information, banking data, transaction history, and payment terminal information.

Sources

Victim sitelopay.com
Leak posthttp://blackxppq2jvqyg4slyg3sbszv7ib2avaaycvhff5qipgdoepqi57xyd.onion/target/6ac90f73698707a00251b714

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Black X

Black X is a nascent ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with limited public documentation available from major threat intelligence sources including CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or comparable research organizations. With only four known victims on record, the group remains in early operational stages, though its targeting pattern suggests a financially motivated threat actor pursuing opportunistic or selectively targeted intrusions across geographically diverse regions. The group has demonstrated activity spanning South Africa, the Philippines, South Korea, and Germany, indicating either a broad global targeting posture or the use of affiliate infrastructure capable of operating across multiple jurisdictions. Targeted sectors include Business Services, Healthcare, Energy, and the Public Sector, a mix consistent with groups seeking high-value data for double extortion leverage or organizations with lower tolerance for operational disruption and therefore greater likelihood of ransom payment. Due to the group's limited operational history and the absence of formal attribution or technical reporting from authoritative cybersecurity bodies, specific details regarding initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methodology, and affiliation structures cannot be responsibly stated at this time. Black X should be considered an emerging and closely monitored threat, and organizations operating in the identified target sectors and regions are advised to maintain heightened defensive posture pending further intelligence development. The group has been linked to 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 2, 2026; most recent post October 9, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 9, 2026lopay listed by Black X on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Black X

Black X has been linked to 14 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,196 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, lopay is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 377 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black X means lopay 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 Black X'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.