Hive

The archived Hive onion address displayed a seizure banner on 26 January 2023. Announcements by the U.S. Department of Justice and Europol confirmed that authorities had taken control of Hive servers and websites.

Operation

Not confirmed

Agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation, German Federal Criminal Police, Netherlands National High Tech Crime Unit

Category

ransomware

Action

law-enforcement seizure

BEFORE

No independently replayable pre-seizure capture of this exact onion address was found in the public web archives reviewed.

AFTER

BEFORE is shown only when a separately sourced public capture exists strictly before the seizure date. AFTER is the content-addressed upstream seizure-banner object.

These are archival labels, not live links. A seized, expired, or reassigned domain is a poor place to send readers without warning.

• hiveleakdbtnp76ulyhi52eag6c6tyc3xw7ez7iqy6wc34gd2nekazyd.onion

seized.fyi states that its domain lists are not always complete. Count: 1.

The archived Hive onion address displayed a seizure banner on 26 January 2023. Announcements by the U.S. Department of Justice and Europol confirmed that authorities had taken control of Hive servers and websites.

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OpenSpy object

Open preserved original

Upstream record

seized.fyi

Observed

2023-01-26

Media

image/gif

Resolution

1024×763

Bytes

1,228,040

SHA-256

7dbb1f7def3e59f796533fe6ae3f8d5acd38e39c3b6d44d429fc00021f2d39e2

Upstream filename

7dbb1f7def3e59f796533fe6ae3f8d5a.gif

1. U.S. Department of Justice Disrupts Hive Ransomware Variant U.S. Department of Justice · official law-enforcement announcement
2. Cybercriminals stung as HIVE infrastructure shut down Europol · official law-enforcement announcement
3. Hive website seizure banner Extortion Wiki · verified archive record