Was The Briars Group hit by ransomware?

The Briars Group was listed by the Snatch ransomware operation (Australia), 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 Snatch ransomware group?

Snatch 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 The Briars Group breach?

Snatch published data attributed to The Briars Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The Briars Group

Claimed by Snatch · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 5, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Snatch
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jun 5, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Briars Group is an international back-office consultancy operating in 100+ countries, serving 3,000+ clients over more than 30 years in business. The company provides outsourced accounting, HR, payroll, tax, and compliance services on a subscription model, supporting businesses through international expansion and full business lifecycle management. It positions itself as a strategic partner for global market entry and operational scaling.

Industry: International Back-Office & Business Process Outsourcing

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Briars Group handles sensitive financial, HR, payroll, and compliance data for 3,000+ client businesses across 100+ countries. A data publication by Snatch means regulated and sensitive data — including employee PII, payroll records, and financial information — belonging to both Briars and potentially thousands of its clients may be exposed at significant scale.

Snatch claims to have exfiltrated data from Briars Group, with the disclosure status marked as data_published, indicating that stolen data has been released or made available. The exact volume of data and whether encryption was also performed are not stated in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Accounting records
HR data
Payroll information
Tax documents
Compliance records
Client business data

What the group claims

We help ambitious businesses land and expand in record time without huge set up costs, compliance headaches or unnecessary business risk. Briars is an international back office consultancy company, providing support services for the full lifecycle of your business, no matter the location, for over 30

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 5, 2023The Briars Group listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Snatch

Snatch has been linked to 142 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, The Briars Group is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means The Briars Group 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Snatch'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.