Was Hacketts printing services hit by ransomware?

Hacketts printing services was listed by the Knight ransomware operation (United Kingdom), 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 Knight ransomware group?

Knight 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 Hacketts printing services breach?

Knight published data attributed to Hacketts printing services. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Hacketts printing services

Claimed by Knight · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 19, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Knight
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 19, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hacketts Printing Services is a family-owned commercial printing and design company based in the United Kingdom. The business has been operating for approximately 68 years and collectively holds over 500 years of combined design and printing experience among its staff. It offers a range of printing and design services built on long-standing industry expertise.

Industry: Commercial Printing & Design Services

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, confirming some level of exfiltration, but the post provides no details on data volume, regulated/sensitive data categories (e.g. PII at scale, financial, medical), or operational disruption, limiting the assessed severity to medium.

The Knight ransomware group claims to have attacked Hacketts Printing Services and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data, though specific data categories and volume are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business documents
Internal company files

What the group claims

As a family business, we have thrived and adapted over the last 68 years, and now boast over 500 years’ combined design and printing experience, knowledge and expertise in the one company. Originally…

Sources

Leak posthttp://knight3xppu263m7g4ag3xlit2qxpryjwueobh7vjdc3zrscqlfu3pqd.onion/blogs/54a8d3da-9c13-4e98-9bcb-f9007f12ed9b/

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 19, 2023Hacketts printing services listed by Knighton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Knight

Knight has been linked to 48 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hacketts printing services is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 1,217 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Knight means Hacketts printing services 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, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Knight'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.