Was Decarie Motors Inc hit by ransomware?

Decarie Motors Inc was listed by the Knight ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Knight ransomware group?

Knight is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Decarie Motors Inc breach?

Knight published data attributed to Decarie Motors Inc. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Decarie Motors Inc

Claimed by Knight · listed 3 years ago

34m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 12, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Knight
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Automotive
Listed on leak site: Sep 12, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Decarie Motors Inc is a Montreal-based luxury automotive dealership group representing Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Bentley brands. The company celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2016, implying founding around 1946, and operates state-of-the-art facilities including Aston Martin Montreal, Bentley Montreal, and Decarie Signature. It serves the Quebec market with new and pre-owned vehicle sales, financing, parts, and service.

Industry: Luxury Automotive Dealership
Address: 8255 Rue Bougainville, Montréal, QC, H4P 2T3
Founded: 1946

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor (data_published status), confirming exfiltration. A luxury automotive dealership handles customer PII, financing records, and potentially regulated financial data, making published exfiltration a high-severity event.

The Knight ransomware group claims an attack on Decarie Motors Inc resulting in data publication (disclosed_status: data_published), suggesting exfiltration of company data. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer records
Financial documents
Business operational data
Employee information

What the group claims

In 2016, Decarie Motors celebrated its 70th anniversary with the grand opening of its brand-new, state-of-the-art facilities for Aston Martin Montreal, Bentley Montreal and Decarie Signature, its exc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 12, 2023Decarie Motors Inc listed by Knighton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Knight

Knight has been linked to 48 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Automotive sector, which has 101 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Decarie Motors Inc is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Knight means Decarie Motors Inc appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Knight's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.