Was abfall-kreis-kassel.de hit by ransomware?

abfall-kreis-kassel.de was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (Germany), 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 safepay ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the abfall-kreis-kassel.de breach?

safepay published data attributed to abfall-kreis-kassel.de. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Abfallentsorgung Kreis Kassel

listed as abfall-kreis-kassel.de · Claimed by Safepay · listed 2 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 17, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Apr 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Abfallentsorgung Kreis Kassel is a publicly owned waste management entity (Eigenbetrieb) operated by the district (Landkreis) of Kassel, Germany. It provides comprehensive waste collection, recycling, hazardous waste disposal, container services, and composting for private households, businesses, and housing providers across the Kassel district. As a public-sector municipal enterprise, it serves the entire population of the Landkreis Kassel.

Industry: Public Waste Management & Recycling Services
Address: Parkstraße 12, 34117 Kassel, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: high — The attack targets a public-sector municipal utility with confirmed data publication by the threat actor. As a government-operated entity serving the entire Kassel district, exfiltrated data is likely to include citizen/customer PII, employee records, and operational data, meeting the threshold for high severity.

The SafePay ransomware group claims to have attacked Abfallentsorgung Kreis Kassel and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of data from this public-sector waste management entity. No specific data size or ransom amount was stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Internal organizational data
Potentially resident/customer records
Operational documents
Employee data

What the group claims

The website abfall-kreis-kassel.de represents the Abfallentsorgung Kreis Kassel, a publicly owned waste management entity (Eigenbetrieb) operated by the district of …

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 582 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 17, 2026abfall-kreis-kassel.de listed by safepayon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 582 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 Public Sector sector, which has 260 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, abfall-kreis-kassel.de is reported in Germany, a country with 334 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means abfall-kreis-kassel.de 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 safepay'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.