Was hgmlegal.com hit by ransomware?

hgmlegal.com was listed by the RansomHub ransomware operation (New Zealand), 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 RansomHub ransomware group?

RansomHub 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 hgmlegal.com breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Hudson Gavin Martin

listed as hgmlegal.com · Claimed by RansomHub · listed 1 year ago

16m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 25, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: RansomHub
Status: Data leaked
Country: New Zealand
Listed on leak site: Feb 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hudson Gavin Martin is a New Zealand-based law firm specializing in technology, media, and intellectual property law. The firm serves startups, established businesses, and public sector organizations, offering services in technology, IP, commercial contracts, cybersecurity, and dispute resolution. They are based in Auckland and position themselves as the largest legal team in New Zealand focused on technology, media, and IP.

Industry: Legal Services - Technology, Media & Intellectual Property
Address: Level 16, 45 Queen Street, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

Attack summary

Severity: high — Law firm with access to sensitive client legal files, IP documents, and commercial contracts. Exfiltration of attorney-client privileged information and client business data represents significant exposure, even without confirmation of specific regulated data categories.

RansomHub claims to have attacked Hudson Gavin Martin. The leak post indicates data was exfiltrated, though specific details on the scope of data compromise or operational impact are not provided in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Intellectual property documents
Commercial contracts
Client communications
Firm internal data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

HGM Legal is a New Zealand-based law firm that specializes in technology and intellectual property law. The firm works with a range of clients including startups, established businesses, and public sector organizations. The services offered by the firm include legal advice in areas such as technology, intellectual property, commercial contracts, and cybersecurity. HGM Legal is known for integrating technology into their work process to better serve their clients. Their team includes a mix of lawyers and tech specialists with experience in a variety of sectors.

Sources

Victim sitehgmlegal.com
Leak posthttp://ransomxifxwc5eteopdobynonjctkxxvap77yqifu2emfbecgbqdw6qd.onion/3fa0c35e-e669-4a86-aec3-d13a425591f5/

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About RansomHub

RansomHub is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in February 2024 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat, compromising over 1,000 victims within its first year of operation. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, though their specific country of origin and potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain under investigation by security researchers. RansomHub employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encrypting victims' systems and threatening to leak the information if ransom demands are not met, with their attacks primarily targeting organizations in the United States, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and Italy. The group has demonstrated a particular focus on business services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors, suggesting they prioritize targets with both high revenue potential and critical operational dependencies that increase the likelihood of ransom payment. Despite their recent emergence, RansomHub has quickly gained notoriety for their aggressive targeting approach and high victim count, with security agencies including CISA and FBI monitoring their activities as part of ongoing ransomware threat assessments. As of current reporting, RansomHub remains active and continues to recruit affiliates for their RaaS operation while expanding their victim base across multiple industries and geographic regions. The group has been linked to 1,032 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 10, 2024; most recent post March 31, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HUB.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 25, 2025hgmlegal.com listed by RansomHubon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by RansomHub

RansomHub has been linked to 1,032 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, hgmlegal.com is reported in New Zealand, a country with 11 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by RansomHub means hgmlegal.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, CERT NZ (New Zealand), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on RansomHub'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.