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Creative United

bd_1d104d22f638dde2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 30, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Creative United

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Safepay on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2025-03-30

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Creative United is a UK-based community interest company committed to supporting the growth and development of the creative and cultural sectors. Through a range of tailored financial and business services like affordable loans, growth advice, and business skills workshops, they aim to help businesses grow and to foster cultural production, bringing creativity to the heart of local communities.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 30, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-11-10

safepay

According to ransomware.live, SafePay emerged in September 2024 as a rapidly growing ransomware operation that explicitly disavows the RaaS model and manages all operations internally, claiming over 300 victims worldwide by mid-2025 with a high-profile early attack against UK telematics firm Microlise stealing 1.2 TB of data.

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