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HIVE360

listed as hive360.com · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 8 days ago

8d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 7, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Dragonforce
Status
Data leaked
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Jul 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

HIVE360 is a UK-based employment administration and employee benefits specialist that helps businesses streamline payroll, HR operations, and employee engagement.

Industry
Human Resources & Payroll Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — HR and payroll services typically hold sensitive PII at scale (employee names, addresses, tax IDs, compensation data, benefits information). Published data from such a provider poses material risk to multiple client organizations and their employees, warranting high severity despite lack of specific proof-count details.

DragonForce claims to have published data from HIVE360. The group has disclosed the breach but the specific nature of exfiltration (data type and volume) and operational impact remain unspecified.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • HR records
  • Payroll data
  • Employee benefits information
  • Business administration data

What the group claims

HIVE360 is a UK-based employment administration and employee benefits specialist. They help businesses streamline their payroll and HR operations while improving employee engagement

Sources

Source

Indexed 8 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Dragonforce

Dragonforce is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim selection. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their rapid accumulation of 439 documented victims suggests either sophisticated capabilities or possible connections to existing ransomware infrastructure. Based on their targeting patterns across diverse sectors including manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction, Dragonforce appears to employ opportunistic attack methodologies, though specific initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been publicly detailed by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Italy representing their most frequent victim locations, suggesting possible language capabilities or geographic operational preferences. As of current reporting, Dragonforce appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim acquisition, though the lack of detailed public analysis from major threat intelligence organizations indicates either operational security measures that have limited researcher visibility or that the group has not yet conducted sufficiently high-profile attacks to warrant extensive public documentation by CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group has been linked to 627 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • July 7, 2026hive360.com listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 627 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 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means hive360.com 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 Dragonforce'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.