Was ppmrecruit.com hit by ransomware?

ppmrecruit.com was listed by the Projectrelic 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 Projectrelic ransomware group?

Projectrelic 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 ppmrecruit.com breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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PPM Recruitment

listed as ppmrecruit.com · Claimed by Projectrelic · listed 11 months ago

11m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 5, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Projectrelic
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Listed on leak site: Aug 5, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

PPM Recruitment is a UK-based recruitment firm established in 1999 that provides permanent, temporary, contract, and freelance staffing services. They operate nationwide with specialist divisions across facilities management, engineering, horticulture, social housing, construction, and senior appointments.

Industry: Recruitment & Staffing Services
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirmed with no operational disruption claimed. Likely exposure of candidate PII (CVs, personal details) and client recruitment records, which is moderately sensitive but not at scale of critical breaches. No proof file count advertised.

Projectrelic claims to have attacked PPM Recruitment and published data. The specific nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and data types are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Candidate CVs and personal information
Employment records
Client business data
Compliance documentation

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

Sources

Victim siteppmrecruit.com

Source

Indexed 11 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Projectrelic

Projectrelic is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim extortion activities. The group has been documented attacking 46 organizations primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, India, Germany, and France, with a focus on technology, manufacturing, construction, and education sectors, though many victims' sector classifications remain undocumented. Limited public intelligence exists regarding Projectrelic's country of origin, organizational structure, or potential affiliations with other cybercriminal groups, and it remains unclear whether they operate as an independent entity or utilize a ransomware-as-a-service model. Similarly, detailed information about their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or use of double extortion tactics has not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has not been associated with any particularly high-profile attacks or record ransom demands that have garnered significant public attention from security researchers or government agencies. Based on available reporting, Projectrelic appears to maintain some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status are limited due to the relatively sparse public documentation surrounding this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 46 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 11, 2022; most recent post November 9, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 5, 2025ppmrecruit.com listed by Projectrelicon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Projectrelic

Projectrelic has been linked to 46 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, ppmrecruit.com is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Projectrelic means ppmrecruit.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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Projectrelic'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.