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Exela Technologies

Claimed by Hive · listed 4 years ago

48m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 13, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Hive
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Information Technology
Listed on leak site
Jul 13, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Exela Technologies (operating globally under the XBP Global brand) is a workflow automation and business process outsourcing company serving over 2,500 clients across 20 countries with approximately 10,600 employees. The company provides services including document digitisation, enterprise information management, output management, intelligent document processing, and revenue cycle management. It has served over 60 Fortune 100 clients and operates more than 85 delivery centres and 400 managed facilities worldwide.

Industry
Business Process Outsourcing & Workflow Automation
Employees
10600

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Exela Technologies handles large-scale regulated data including healthcare revenue cycle management, financial and accounting outsourcing, and document processing for over 2,500 global clients including Fortune 100 companies; data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of potentially highly sensitive PII, medical, and financial data at significant scale.

The Hive ransomware group claimed an attack against Exela Technologies and the disclosure status is marked as data_published, indicating that exfiltrated data was published. No specific details about the volume of data, encryption activity, or nature of published files were captured in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business process data
  • Client records
  • Enterprise document archives
  • Financial and accounting records
  • Healthcare revenue cycle data
  • Employee information

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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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

  • July 13, 2022Exela Technologies listed by hiveon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by hive

hive has been linked to 208 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 Information Technology sector, which has 69 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Exela Technologies is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by hive means Exela Technologies 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 hive'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.