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HireBus

bd_b099e51619a2f122 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 21, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for HireBus

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Darkvault 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: Transportation/LogisticsDiscovered: 2024-04-11

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

With HireBus, you can accurately identify the success potential of candidates fast and effectively develop your employees once hired. Using a scientifically-validated behavioral assessment powered by Behavioral Essentials and industry-specific profiling, we help you quickly assess a candidate’s fit for common roles in the home-services industry, and give you tools to understand and keep your employees.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 21, 2024

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 2024-02-08

darkvault

According to ransomware.live, DarkVault is a data-exfiltration and double-extortion group first identified in late 2023, targeting medium-to-large organizations in finance, professional services, legal, and technology sectors across Europe, the UK, and North America, with a suspected connection to LockBit.

55 victims claimed globally55 tracked hereFull profile →