Penfold
β Listed in the last 48hAbout the organisation
Penfold is a London-based financial technology company founded in 2018 that provides digital workplace and personal pension solutions for businesses, employees, self-employed professionals, freelancers, and limited company directors. The platform simplifies auto-enrolment compliance for employers while offering individuals real-time pension tracking, transparent investment breakdowns, and flexible contribution management via a mobile app and website. Penfold supports pension consolidation, automatic tax relief, and multiple investment plans including a Sharia-compliant option. Investments are managed by BlackRock and HSBC, and the company is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Over 100,000 people and thousands of businesses across the United Kingdom trust Penfold with their pension savings. The company headquarters is located in The Ministry, 79Γ’β¬β81 Borough Road, London, SE1 1DN, United Kingdom. 51-200 Employees
What the listing means
Penfold appeared on the Storm leak site on 18 August 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 22 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Penfold as suspicious β leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on getpenfold.com, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Technology organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach β check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/UGVuZm9sZEBTdG9ybQ==
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Captured from the group's extortion site. It may contain the victim's data or the attacker's messaging.