Was grundens.com hit by ransomware?

grundens.com 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 grundens.com breach?

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

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grundens.com

Claimed by Safepay · listed 12 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 5, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Oct 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Grundéns is an international manufacturer of technical fishing apparel, waterproof protective clothing, footwear and equipment serving both commercial and recreational fishermen. Founded in 1911 by Carl A. Grundén in Sweden, the company has evolved from traditional oilskin production into a broader technical-performance brand offering rainwear, waders, boots, jackets and layering systems for offshore and recreational fishing.

Industry: Technical Fishing Apparel & Waterproof Protective Clothing
Founded: 1911

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data exfiltration claimed but no proof files published yet; leak post contains only company background information with promise of evidence 'soon'. Exposure level and data sensitivity remain unverified.

SafePay claims to have compromised Grundéns and obtained data. No details are provided regarding what was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both. A link to proof materials is stated as forthcoming but not yet published.

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What the group claims

The company's origins can be traced to 1911, when Carl A. Grundén, the son of a fisherman from Grundsund on …

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Grundéns is an international manufacturer and brand specializing in technical fishing apparel, waterproof protective clothing, footwear and equipment for professional and recreational fishermen.
The company's origins can be traced to 1911, when Carl A. Grundén, the son of a fisherman from Grundsund on Sweden's west coast, began producing waterproof oilskin clothing for fishermen working in harsh North Sea conditions. In 1926, he formally established Grundéns Regnkläder AB.The company has developed from traditional waterproof fishing clothing into a broader technical-performance brand. Its current product portfolio includes rainwear, bibs, jackets, pants, boots, waders, wading boots, gloves, technical fishing apparel and layering systems. Grundéns serves both commercial fishermen and sport-fishing customers, with products designed for offshore fishing, recreational fishing, boating and demanding wet-weather environments.
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Sources

Victim sitegrundens.com
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion/blog/post/grundenscom/

Source

Indexed 12 hours 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 872 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post October 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 5, 2026grundens.com listed by safepay on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 872 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 Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, grundens.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,175 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means grundens.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, 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.