Was HAFNIA LAW FIRM hit by ransomware?

HAFNIA LAW FIRM was listed by the beast ransomware operation, 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 beast ransomware group?

beast 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 HAFNIA LAW FIRM breach?

beast published data attributed to HAFNIA LAW FIRM. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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HAFNIA LAW FIRM

Claimed by Beast · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Beast
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Legal
Listed on leak site: May 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

HAFNIA LAW FIRM is a legal practice specializing in shipping and maritime matters, serving transport-related industries including vessel owners, cargo interests, insurers, banks, repair yards, and trade houses. They provide services ranging from contract formation to dispute resolution across the shipping supply chain.

Industry: Shipping & Maritime Law

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data publication by ransomware group targeting a law firm handling sensitive shipping, financial, and commercial matters for multiple industries. Law firm data typically contains privileged attorney-client communications, trade secrets, and confidential business information across numerous clients.

The Beast group claims to have exfiltrated data from HAFNIA LAW FIRM and has published it. The specific data categories and operational impact are not detailed in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Legal client files
Shipping contracts
Commercial communications
Business records

What the group claims

Law firm specialising in shipping matters, servicing transport industries including owners and cargo interests, insurance companies, banks, yards, repair shops and trade houses. Services range from contract formation to dispute resolution.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

HAFNIA LAW FIRM specialises in shipping matters, be it by air, land, sea or a combination and we service the industries relative to transport like owners and cargo interests, insurance companies, banks, yards, repairshops and trade houses; from the manufacturer or distributor to the retailer. We service the broker, the agent, the warehouse keeper and suppliers of goods and generally provide services to the shipping industry. We also assist our clients in company matters. Our services range from the contract formation to the dispute resolution.
P U B L I S H E D

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/hafnia_law_firm

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 106 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 30, 2026HAFNIA LAW FIRM listed by beaston the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by beast

beast has been linked to 106 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 Legal sector, which has 241 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by beast means HAFNIA LAW FIRM 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on beast'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.