Was LiveAction hit by ransomware?

LiveAction was listed by the Snatch 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 Snatch ransomware group?

Snatch 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 LiveAction breach?

Snatch published data attributed to LiveAction. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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LiveAction

Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 22, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Snatch
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: May 22, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

LiveAction is a U.S.-based software company that provides a Network Observability and Intelligence Platform used by enterprise teams and service providers. Its products — including LiveNX, LiveWire, LiveAssist, and Omnipeek — offer network performance monitoring, packet capture and forensics, application performance management, and security analytics. The company's capabilities have been integrated into BlueCat's network observability and intelligence solutions.

Industry: Network Performance Monitoring & Security Software
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: high — LiveAction serves enterprise and government network teams with sensitive network observability and security tooling; a confirmed data publication by a known ransomware group targeting such a vendor implies exposure of potentially sensitive business, customer, and network-security-related data, warranting a high severity classification even without a detailed data inventory in the post.

The Snatch ransomware group claims an attack on LiveAction and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post excerpt does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor does it detail the volume or nature of the stolen data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Undisclosed internal company data

What the group claims

LiveAction’s Network Intelligence platform transforms complex data into actionable insights, providing organizations with a comprehensive view of their network, from network and application performance to security. Enterprise teams can rapidly take action to resolve network issues at scale, accelerate threat response, increase employee productivity, and

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 22, 2023LiveAction listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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 Technology sector, which has 3,563 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, LiveAction is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means LiveAction 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 Snatch'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.