Was Best Price Financial Services hit by ransomware?

Best Price Financial Services was listed by the Everest 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 Everest ransomware group?

Everest 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 Best Price Financial Services breach?

Everest published data attributed to Best Price Financial Services. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Best Price Financial Services

Claimed by Everest · listed 1 year ago

11m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 25, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Everest
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Best Price Financial Services is a UK-based independent financial services provider offering life insurance, income protection, business protection, and critical illness cover. The company operates an online comparison tool to help clients identify suitable products and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Industry: Financial Services - Insurance & Investment Products
Founded: 2007

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Financial services company with regulated customer data; disclosure status indicates data published, but no proof count or specific data inventory details are provided in the leak post. The absence of concrete proof documentation and detailed data claims limits confidence in severity assessment.

The Everest group claims to have conducted an attack on Best Price Financial Services. Details of the specific attack method (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and the scope of compromised data are not provided in the available leak post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer financial records
Insurance policy information
Personal identification data
Investment account details

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Best Price Financial Services is a UK-based independent financial services provider established in 2007. The company offers a range of insurance and investment products including life insurance, income protection, business protection, and critical illness cover. It is known for its online comparison tool that helps clients find suitable products at affordable rates. The company is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Sources

Leak posthttp://ransomocmou6mnbquqz44ewosbkjk3o5qjsl3orawojexfook2j7esad.onion/news/Best_Price_Financial_Services

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Everest

Everest is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with a focus on profit-driven extortion campaigns against organizations primarily in the United States and Europe. The group's country of origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate as an independent entity rather than a formal ransomware-as-a-service model. Limited public documentation exists regarding Everest's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their victim profile indicates they employ standard ransomware tactics targeting a diverse range of sectors including healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing organizations. Since their emergence, Everest has claimed responsibility for attacks against 339 victims across multiple countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Spain representing their primary geographic targets, though no specific high-profile incidents or major ransoms have been publicly documented by law enforcement or major security firms. As of current reporting, Everest appears to remain an active threat actor, though the limited public intelligence available suggests they operate as a lower-tier ransomware group compared to more prominent and well-documented criminal organizations. The group has been linked to 369 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post May 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 25, 2025Best Price Financial Services listed by Evereston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Everest

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Best Price Financial Services is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Everest means Best Price Financial Services 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 Everest'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.