Was Creditinfo hit by ransomware?

Creditinfo was listed by the Payouts King 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 Payouts King ransomware group?

Payouts King 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 Creditinfo breach?

Payouts King published data attributed to Creditinfo. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Creditinfo

Claimed by Payouts King · listed 1 year ago

11m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 23, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 23, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Creditinfo is a global financial services company established in 1997 that operates credit bureaus and provides credit information, risk management, and decisioning solutions across 40+ countries. With ~480 employees and 25+ years of experience, it serves millions of clients through credit scoring, business intelligence, consumer solutions, fraud detection, and KYC platforms.

Industry: Credit Information & Risk Management Services
Employees: 480
Founded: 1997

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Creditinfo is a major global credit bureau and financial services provider holding sensitive PII (credit scores, personal financial histories) and regulated financial data at massive scale across 40+ countries and millions of individuals/businesses. Exfiltration of such data poses systemic financial risk and regulatory exposure.

The PayOutsKing group claims to have accessed Creditinfo's systems and published data. The specific scope of exfiltration and operational impact are not detailed in the truncated leak post provided.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Credit bureau data
Consumer credit scores and histories
Business information and company data
KYC/identity verification records
Customer application data
Risk assessment information

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Creditinfo is a leading service provider for credit information and risk management solutions worldwide. It was established in 1997 and has grown to have a presence in over 50 countries. As an international financial services company, it assists businesses, individuals, and organizations with credit-related decisions by offering a range of services, including credit risk management, marketing intelligence, and decision analytics.

Sources

Victim sitecreditinfo.com
Leak posthttps:/payoutsgn7cy6uliwevdqspncjpfxpmzgirwl2au65la7rfs5x3qnbqd.onion/detail_post/dLzWlth23bgmQbUmoLfN

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 23, 2025Creditinfo listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

Payouts King has been linked to 100 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Creditinfo is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means Creditinfo 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 Payouts King'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.