listgrove.com Listed by safepay Ransomware Group

On June 30, 2025, the UK recruitment firm Listgrove Limited appeared on the leak site of the safepay ransomware group, with attackers claiming to have exfiltrated internal files from the company’s systems.

What's Publicly Reported from Reporting

Public reporting indicates that Listgrove, a recruitment and HR consultancy founded in 1975 and based in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, was listed after a ransomware incident. The data exposed consists of internal files that the group says were stolen prior to encryption. No confirmed total of affected individuals has been released, and the precise volume or sensitivity of the documents remains unclear from available reporting. The listing appeared on the safepay leak site, which is accessible via the onion address tracked by ransomware.live.

The incident follows the group’s typical pattern of publishing samples or full datasets when victims do not meet their demands. At the time of publication, no independent verification of the data volume or exact contents had been widely circulated beyond the group’s own claims.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a recruitment consultancy is breached, the files often contain resumes, contact details, employment histories, addresses, phone numbers, email accounts, and sometimes dates of birth or national insurance numbers. If you or anyone in your family has ever applied for work through a firm like Listgrove, your information could be among the records now in attackers’ hands.

Credential leaks like this one frequently cascade into account takeovers elsewhere. A password or email address reused from an old job application can give criminals access to your banking, email, or social media accounts. Children’s information is not immune: gaming usernames, parent email addresses, and family-linked accounts often surface in the same datasets, creating pathways for harassment or further extortion.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Implications

Stolen internal recruitment files rarely stay isolated. Attackers combine them with other breaches to build detailed profiles. A phone number from one record links to a gaming handle in another; an old work email ties to a personal social-media account. These identity chains allow doxxing that can expose your home address, family members’ names, and daily routines.

Public reporting describes how such chains accelerate harassment, identity theft, and targeted scams. Once your data appears in underground markets, it can be repackaged and sold repeatedly. The longer the exposure goes unnoticed, the more connections criminals can map.

Safepay Group’s Known Track Record

Public reporting attributes safepay with emerging in late 2024 as a ransomware operation that combines double-extortion tactics with data leaks. The group has listed healthcare providers, manufacturers, and professional-services firms. Its typical playbook involves initial access through phishing or exploited remote-desktop services, followed by exfiltration of sensitive files before deploying ransomware. If payment is not received, safepay publishes samples on its leak site and offers the full archive to other criminals. Exact success rates and total victims are difficult to confirm, but the group maintains an active presence on dark-web leak portals.

What to do

• Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your emails, phone numbers, usernames, and real-world identity so you can see exactly what this claimed breach connects to.
• Rotate any password you ever used at Listgrove or similar recruitment sites, then enable two-factor authentication through an authenticator app on every account where that password was reused.
• Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next leak exposing you or your family is caught in hours rather than months.
• Cover the household with DoxxScan family protection that extends to dependents and children’s gaming accounts, which often chain back to the same addresses and parent emails leaked in recruitment files.
• Let remediation specialists handle takedown requests across data brokers and leak sites while you focus on securing day-to-day accounts.

The Listgrove breach is a reminder that your personal data can surface long after you applied for a job or updated your CV. Acting quickly limits how far criminals can build on this information. DoxxScan by GalaxyWarden delivers continuous monitoring across 13.1 billion+ breach records and more than 100 platforms, AI-powered identity-chain mapping, and hands-on remediation by specialists, with household coverage that includes children’s gaming accounts. Starting protective measures now reduces the chance that this incident becomes the first link in a larger chain of identity abuse.