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First 4 Recruitment
bd_d006c3b8e9d448fc · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for First 4 Recruitment →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Beast 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 ServicesClaimed data size: 55GBDiscovered: 2026-02-18
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
First 4 Recruitment is a prominent recruitment agency based in the North West, specializing in the Industrial, Logistics, Construction, and Commercial sectors.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet. If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice, or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens will merge it into an incident and link it here.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jan 8, 2026
- Raw hash
- a659be79da24234d3f33d28dbbd642d4f0c288f2920027a6173299ee95f5e765
Reporting entity
- Name
- beast
Victim entity
- Name
- First 4 Recruitmentnorm: first 4 recruitment
- Domain
- first4-recruitment.com
- Industry
- Professional Services
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· beast
- Threat actor
- BeastExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.