Disclosure context

About hive

Hive is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, operating as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model to maximize their criminal enterprise's reach and profitability. The group is suspected to have origins in Eastern Europe based on their operational patterns and linguistic indicators, though definitive attribution remains unclear, and they operate independently while recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks on their behalf. Hive primarily gains initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities in public-facing applications, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware payload that uses a combination of RSA and AES encryption algorithms while simultaneously exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption to enable double extortion tactics where they threaten to publish stolen information if ransom demands are not met. The group has targeted over 208 victims globally with a particular focus on manufacturing companies, business services, information technology firms, healthcare services, and internet and telecommunication services, primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Indonesia, and China, including notable attacks against healthcare systems and critical infrastructure that drew significant attention from law enforcement agencies. In January 2023, the FBI announced the successful disruption of Hive's operations, seizing their dark web leak sites and decryption keys, effectively dismantling the group's infrastructure and providing free decryption tools to victims. The group has been linked to 208 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 14, 2021; most recent post January 16, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 21, 2022Alvaria listed by hiveon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Alvaria is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Alvaria

Claimed by hive · listed 3 years ago

41m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Dec 21, 2022
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: hive
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Dec 21, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Alvaria is a global enterprise software and cloud services company specialising in contact centre infrastructure, customer experience, and workforce engagement solutions. The company has over 50 years of history, claiming to have built the first Automatic Call Distribution System in 1973 and the first Auto Dialer in 1981. It serves large regulated-industry clients including 8 of the top 10 global financial institutions, 7 of the top 10 global healthcare organisations, and 9 of the top 10 telecom/media providers.

Industry: Enterprise Contact Center & Workforce Engagement Software
Employees: 501-1000
Founded: 1973

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Alvaria provides enterprise contact centre infrastructure to heavily regulated industries (top global banks, healthcare organisations, insurance, telecom). A confirmed data publication by Hive almost certainly includes sensitive business data and potentially regulated PII at scale from clients in financial services and healthcare sectors, meeting the critical threshold.

Hive ransomware group claims an attack on Alvaria and has published data, indicating confirmed exfiltration. The leak post describes Alvaria as a global leader in customer experience and workforce engagement software, with no ransom amount or explicit data volume stated.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer records
Business contracts and agreements
Employee data
Financial records
Source code or software assets
Internal communications
Regulated-industry client data (financial, healthcare, telecom)

What the group claims

Alvaria, (pronounced: ahl-vahr-ee-uh), a global leader delivering optimized customer experience and workforce engagement software and cloud services technology solutions.

Sources

Victim sitealvaria.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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