Was Payme Ltd hit by ransomware?

Payme Ltd was listed by the blacknevas 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 blacknevas ransomware group?

blacknevas 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 Payme Ltd breach?

blacknevas published data attributed to Payme Ltd (~1030 GB), around 145146 files records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Payme Ltd

Claimed by Blacknevas · listed 1 year ago

1030 GB

Data size

145146 files records

12m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 6, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacknevas
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Listed on leak site: Aug 6, 2025
Data size: 1030 GB
Records: 145146 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Payme Ltd is a UK-based payroll and contracting company providing services to agencies and contractors. They hold FCSA (Financial Conduct Authority Service) and professional passport accreditation, indicating regulatory compliance in the recruitment and staffing sector.

Industry: Payroll & Contractor Management Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of personally identifiable information (passport data) at scale (1030 GB) plus financial records. Passport data is regulated personal information; financial data exposure combined with PII affects multiple individuals and entities.

The blacknevas group claims to have compromised the entire company infrastructure and exfiltrated approximately 1030 GB of data, including passport data and financial reports belonging to contractors and agencies.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Passport data (contractors)
Financial reports
Company infrastructure files

What the group claims

Payme Ltd is a CIS payroll and contracting company with FCSA and professional passport accreditation for agencies and contractors.loading the entire company infrastructure, 1030 gigabytes of passport data and financial reports

The leak post

captured from the group's site

[ Speed Group (speedgroupe.com / speedfrance.fr) is a global leader in the manufacture of synthetic monofilament lines. The company was founded in France over 40 years ago. Today, Speed Group operates four manufacturing plants located in France, the USA, Chile, and South Africa. It specializes in the extrusion of high-quality monofilaments—particularly trimmer lines—and ranks among the world's leading players in this sector. The company also produces technical monofilaments for other industries. Since 2004, it has been part of the Italian Emak Group (Tecomec). Speed Group is renowned for its high product quality, rigorous production controls, and excellent service.Cyber Attack on Speed Group (speedgroupe.com)World leader in monofilament lines manufacturing — Speed Group — has been hit by a cyber attack. Hackers breached the company’s systems and stole confidential data.More than 1 terabytes of information were exfiltrated, including technical documentation, customer databases and production data from factories in France, USA, Chile, and South Africa.The company has not issued an official statement yet. #SpeedGroup #CyberAttack #DataBreach ](http://ctyfftrjgtwdjzlgqh4avbd35sqr…

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About blacknevas

Blacknevas is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in August 2025, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their diverse geographic targeting suggests either a distributed operation or broad opportunistic approach. Based on available victim data, Blacknevas has compromised at least 23 organizations across multiple countries, with the United States, Spain, India, Japan, and Thailand being the most frequently targeted nations, while their sector focus spans technology, manufacturing, energy, and consumer services industries, suggesting they employ opportunistic rather than sector-specific targeting methodologies. The group's attack vectors, specific tools, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or maintain independent operations have not been publicly documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence in August 2025, there is insufficient public reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers to detail notable campaigns or significant attacks beyond the confirmed victim count. Given the recency of their first observed activity, Blacknevas appears to remain active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from authoritative sources have yet to be published. The group has been linked to 47 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post August 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 6, 2025Payme Ltd listed by blacknevason the group's public leak site

Data size: 1030 GB
Records: 145146 files

Other recent disclosures by blacknevas

blacknevas has been linked to 47 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full blacknevas dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Payme Ltd is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacknevas means Payme Ltd 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 blacknevas'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.