Disclosure context

About Hiveleak

Hiveleak is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, conducting targeted attacks primarily against organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain, and Germany with a focus on manufacturing, business services, information technology, healthcare, and education sectors. Limited public documentation exists regarding this group's specific country of origin or affiliations with other ransomware operations, though their targeting patterns and operational timeline suggest they operate as part of the broader ransomware ecosystem that proliferated during the 2021-2022 period. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities remain largely undocumented in major threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or leading security research firms, though their victim count of 208 organizations indicates sustained operational capability over their known active period. Notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting, suggesting the group may have maintained a lower profile compared to major ransomware operations like Conti or LockBit during the same timeframe. The current operational status of Hiveleak remains unclear based on available public intelligence reporting. 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 May 26, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

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

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dixons Allerton Academy is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Dixons Allerton Academy

Claimed by Hiveleak · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 20, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Hiveleak
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 is part of the Dixons Academies Trust and serves students from primary through to sixth form age. The school operates within the state-funded academy sector in the United Kingdom.

Industry: Secondary & Sixth Form Education
Address: Allerton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: high — The status is 'data_published', meaning data has been actively released rather than merely threatened. A school holds regulated personal data on minors (students) and staff, including sensitive PII, which constitutes confirmed exfiltration of data subject to UK GDPR and special-category protections. This warrants a high severity rating; critical is not confirmed without evidence of medical or financial data at scale.

The Hiveleak ransomware group claims to have attacked Dixons Allerton Academy and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post provides no explicit detail on whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it specify the volume or nature of data released.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

School administrative records
Student data (likely)
Staff records (likely)

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 3 years ago

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