Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsHiringSteps
listed as hiringsteps.com · Claimed by cipherforce · listed 3 months ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Feb 23, 2026
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- cipherforce
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- United States
- Sector
- Business Services
- Listed on leak site
- Feb 23, 2026
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileHiringSteps (hiringsteps.com) is a cloud-based recruitment platform designed to streamline hiring processes for businesses of various sizes. The platform enables recruiters to post job openings, source candidates, conduct interviews, check references, and manage job offers within a single integrated system. It serves employers, recruiters, and candidates with the goal of reducing administrative overhead in recruitment workflows.
- Industry
- HR Technology & Recruitment Software
Attack summary
Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, suggesting exfiltration occurred, but the leak post is AI-generated with no specific data inventory, proof files, or volume cited. A recruitment platform would likely hold PII (candidate resumes, contact details, employer data), which carries moderate-to-high sensitivity, but the absence of any concrete evidence or proof limits confidence in severity.The cipherforce group claims to have published data from HiringSteps.com, with the disclosure status marked as data_published. The leak post description appears AI-generated and provides no specific details about the nature of exfiltrated data or whether encryption was involved.
Original description
AI-summarised, not from the leak post"HiringSteps.com" is a robust online cloud-based platform designed to streamline the recruitment processes for businesses of different sizes. The platform allows recruiters to post job openings, source candidates, conduct interviews, check references, and send job offers all in one place. It aims to simplify recruitment by reducing paperwork and improving coordination among employers, recruiters, and candidates.
Sources
Source
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