Was halservice.it hit by ransomware?

halservice.it was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (Italy), 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 halservice.it breach?

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

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HAL Service S.p.A.

listed as halservice.it · 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: Italy
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

HAL Service S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications and ICT company headquartered in Borgosesia, Piedmont, established in 1990. The company provides fixed-wireless-access (FWA) broadband, VoIP telephony, internet connectivity, ICT system integration, cybersecurity, cloud and digital services across northeastern Piedmont, Lombardy, and Calabria, serving private customers, businesses, and public administrations under its WIC brand.

Industry: Telecommunications & ICT Services
Address: Borgosesia, Piedmont, Italy
Founded: 1990

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) by a ransomware operator; however, the leak post provides no enumeration of proof files, no description of data categories, and no operational impact statement. The absence of specifics on what was compromised limits confidence in severity assessment.

The SafePay group claims to have compromised HAL Service S.p.A. and published data. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what data is at stake.

medium

What the group claims

Established in 1990, the company initially focused on system integration and information-technology services and later expanded into telecommunications following the …

The leak post

captured from the group's site

HAL Service S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications and ICT company headquartered in Borgosesia, Piedmont.
Established in 1990, the company initially focused on system integration and information-technology services and later expanded into telecommunications following the liberalization of wireless frequencies in Italy. It developed a fixed-wireless-access (FWA) network covering parts of northeastern Piedmont and subsequently expanded its telecommunications operations into selected areas of Lombardy and Calabria.The company's activities include Internet connectivity, fixed-wireless broadband, VoIP telephony, ICT system integration, cybersecurity, cloud and digital services, networking and IoT solutions. HAL Service provides telecommunications services to private customers, businesses and public administrations, while also working with wholesale and business partners. Its WIC brand is used for several connectivity and digital-service offerings.
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Sources

Victim sitehalservice.it
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion/blog/post/halserviceit/

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, 2026halservice.it 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:

See the full safepay dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Professional Services sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, halservice.it is reported in Italy, a country with 203 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means halservice.it 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), 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.