Was Richard Alibon Primary School hit by ransomware?

Richard Alibon Primary School was listed by the beast 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 beast ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Richard Alibon Primary School breach?

beast published data attributed to Richard Alibon Primary School. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Richard Alibon Primary School

Claimed by Beast · listed 6 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 13, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Beast
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Jan 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Richard Alibon Primary School is a state primary school located in Dagenham, East London, UK. It serves children from Nursery through Year 6, emphasising values of confidence, perseverance, ambition, curiosity, respect, and happiness. The school describes itself as large, with a diverse, internationally connected community and a broad curriculum supplemented by trips, clubs, and community activities.

Industry: Primary Education
Address: Alibon Road, Dagenham, RM10 8DF, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a primary school holding records on minors (children under 13), which constitutes highly sensitive PII subject to strict UK data protection regulation (UK GDPR, DPA 2018). Data is confirmed published, meaning exfiltrated data involving children's personal information is now publicly exposed, representing a critical child-safeguarding and regulatory risk.

The BEAST ransomware group claims to have attacked Richard Alibon Primary School and lists the disclosure status as data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific ransom demand or data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records
Staff records
Parent/guardian contact information
Administrative documents
School operational data

What the group claims

Richard Alibon Primary is a school where all individuals are valued and helped to achieve their personal best. Confidence � Perseverance � Ambition � Curiousity � Respect � Happiness While we are a large school, every child is important to us. Children are supported in becoming confident and independent young people. We want all our children to have a strong voice. We want each child to be safe and happy at school; to be at their best as learners and as a citizen within our community. We believe that the �special feel� at Richard Alibon comes from our caring, supportive and friendly environment. If you visit Richard Alibon, you will see just how well children and staff get on together; the good behaviour of our children and how pupils live out our school values of: The excellent start begins in Nursery and continues through the school. As a school that has children and staff with family connections around the world we have a strong international outlook. A good day of learning in school is supported by frequent trips and visits, community activities and a wide range of after-school clubs which further add to the opportunities available to children.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

AJU Pharm Co., Ltd. is a prominent South Korean total healthcare company founded in 1953. For over 70 years, it has evolved from a manufacturer of raw materials into a global pharmaceutical group specializing in prescription drugs, medical devices, and health supplements
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Sources

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

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Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 104 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 13, 2026Richard Alibon Primary School listed by beaston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by beast

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Richard Alibon Primary School is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by beast means Richard Alibon Primary School 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 beast'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.