Was recoverycafe.org hit by ransomware?

recoverycafe.org was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (United States), 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 safepay ransomware group?

safepay 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 recoverycafe.org breach?

safepay published data attributed to recoverycafe.org. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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recoverycafe.org

Claimed by Safepay · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Sep 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Recovery Café is a U.S. nonprofit organization founded in 2003 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It provides long-term recovery support for people affected by trauma, homelessness, addiction, and mental-health challenges through peer support, meals, educational programs, and referrals to healthcare, housing, and employment services.

Industry: Nonprofit Healthcare & Social Services
Address: Seattle, Washington, US
Founded: 2003

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The victim is a healthcare-adjacent nonprofit handling sensitive member information (recovery/addiction/mental health data), but the leak post provides no proof of data exfiltration, no inventory of exposed files, and no operational impact claim. Listing alone without evidence warrants medium classification.

The SafePay group claims to have attacked Recovery Café. No specific details are provided in the leak post regarding what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or otherwise compromised.

medium

What the group claims

The organization was founded in 2003 and opened its first physical café in Seattle in 2004. Its approach is based …

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Recovery Café is a U.S. nonprofit organization headquartered in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to providing long-term recovery support for people affected by trauma, homelessness, addiction, and mental-health challenges.
The organization was founded in 2003 and opened its first physical café in Seattle in 2004. Its approach is based on the principle that sustained recovery requires not only treatment, but also stable relationships, community, belonging, and access to practical social services. Recovery Café provides a safe, drug- and alcohol-free environment where members can receive free meals, coffee, peer support, educational programs, referrals, and opportunities for personal development. Its core programs include Recovery Circles, which provide structured peer-to-peer support, and the School for Recovery, which offers classes addressing addiction, coping skills, mental health, and personal development. The organization also facilitates access to healthcare, housing assistance, employment resources, legal services, and substance-use treatment through partnerships with external providers. Recovery Café operates locations in Seattle and has developed the Recovery Café Network, wh…

Sources

Victim siterecoverycafe.org
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion/blog/post/recoverycafeorg/

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 763 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post September 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 8, 2026recoverycafe.org listed by safepay on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 763 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, recoverycafe.org is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means recoverycafe.org 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on safepay'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.