Was R C Stevens Construction hit by ransomware?

R C Stevens Construction was listed by the Hiveleak ransomware operation (United States), 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 Hiveleak ransomware group?

Hiveleak 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 R C Stevens Construction breach?

Hiveleak published data attributed to R C Stevens Construction. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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R. C. Stevens Construction Co.

listed as R C Stevens Construction · Claimed by Hiveleak · listed 3 years ago

42m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 16, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Hiveleak
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Jan 16, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

R. C. Stevens Construction Co. is a Florida-based commercial construction firm headquartered in Winter Garden, FL, operating since 1926. The company specializes in new construction and renovation services across industrial, commercial, and healthcare markets throughout Florida and the Southeast. Services offered include general contracting, construction management, and design-build delivery methods.

Industry: Commercial & Industrial Construction
Address: 28 S. Main Street, Winter Garden, FL 34787
Founded: 1926

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no specific data types, volume, or regulated/sensitive data categories (e.g., PII at scale, medical records) are enumerated in the post, limiting severity to medium.

The Hiveleak ransomware group claims to have published data belonging to R. C. Stevens Construction Co., with the disclosed status indicating data has been published. No specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the post.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company project records
Client information
Construction project documentation
Business operational data

What the group claims

As commercial construction specialists in Orlando, we provide new construction and renovation services with an emphasis on design/build. R. C. Stevens is qualified to design and construct any type of commercial construction project in Orlando. We offer all of the necessary resources to meet each client’s specific project needs for design and construction services related to manufacturing/industrial, commercial, healthcare, financial, religious, and renovations. At. R. C. Stevens, the spirit of innovation can be found in each and every Orlando commercial construction project we do. Every team member at R.C. Stevens strives daily to uphold the founding principles of quality and integrity as having long been a company tradition since 1926.

Sources

Victim sitercstevens.com/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Hiveleak

Hiveleak is a financially-motivated ransomware group that emerged in August 2021, conducting targeted attacks primarily against organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain, and Germany with a focus on manufacturing, business services, information technology, healthcare, and education sectors. Limited public documentation exists regarding this group's specific country of origin or affiliations with other ransomware operations, though their targeting patterns and operational timeline suggest they operate as part of the broader ransomware ecosystem that proliferated during the 2021-2022 period. The group's attack methodology and technical capabilities remain largely undocumented in major threat intelligence reports from CISA, FBI, or leading security research firms, though their victim count of 208 organizations indicates sustained operational capability over their known active period. Notable campaigns and high-profile victims have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting, suggesting the group may have maintained a lower profile compared to major ransomware operations like Conti or LockBit during the same timeframe. The current operational status of Hiveleak remains unclear based on available public intelligence reporting. 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

January 16, 2023R C Stevens Construction listed by Hiveleakon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Hiveleak

Hiveleak 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, R C Stevens Construction is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hiveleak means R C Stevens Construction 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 Hiveleak'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.