Was thebeautyclick.co.uk hit by ransomware?

thebeautyclick.co.uk was listed by the Apt73 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 Apt73 ransomware group?

Apt73 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 thebeautyclick.co.uk breach?

Apt73 published data attributed to thebeautyclick.co.uk. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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The Beauty Click

listed as thebeautyclick.co.uk · Claimed by Apt73 · listed 2 years ago

20m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 24, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Apt73
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 24, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Beauty Click is an online platform founded in April 2018 by Chantelle Bass that connects beauty and hair specialists with clients. The company operates in the United Kingdom and provides a marketplace for beauty and hair professionals.

Industry: Beauty & Hair Services Platform
Founded: 2018

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files or screenshots are documented in the post. No specific data types are disclosed, and no operational impact or encryption claim is clearly stated. This appears to be a listing announcement only.

Apt73 claims to have accessed The Beauty Click's systems and published data. The group does not specify whether encryption or exfiltration occurred, or what data categories were affected.

low

What the group claims

The Beauty Click was founded in April 2018 by Chantelle Bass. A website that has a platform for both the beauty and hair specialists themselves a...

Sources

Victim sitethebeautyclick.co.uk
Leak posthttp://bashe4aec32kr6zbifwd5x6xgjsmhg4tbowrbx4pneqhc5mqooyifpid.onion/page_company.php?id=60

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Apt73

APT73 is a recently emerged ransomware group that began operations in April 2024, with financial motivation as their primary driver based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group has demonstrated rapid growth in their operational tempo, accumulating 78 documented victims within their first months of activity. Their targeting methodology shows a preference for English-speaking markets and major economies, with the United Kingdom and United States representing their primary focus areas, followed by significant activity in India, Brazil, and France. The group exhibits a clear preference for high-value sectors including business services, technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations, suggesting a calculated approach to victim selection based on potential payment capability and operational impact. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, specific details regarding their initial access vectors, tooling, encryption methods, or organizational structure remain largely unconfirmed by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group's current operational status appears active based on the timeline of their emergence, though comprehensive analysis of their capabilities and infrastructure requires additional intelligence gathering and documentation by security researchers. The group has been linked to 161 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 22, 2024; most recent post July 6, 2026. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: Eraleign.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 24, 2024thebeautyclick.co.uk listed by Apt73on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Apt73

Apt73 has been linked to 161 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, thebeautyclick.co.uk is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Apt73 means thebeautyclick.co.uk 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 Apt73'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.