Was Van Eijck International Car Rescue hit by ransomware?

Van Eijck International Car Rescue was listed by the aurora ransomware operation (Netherlands), 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 aurora ransomware group?

aurora 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 Van Eijck International Car Rescue breach?

aurora published data attributed to Van Eijck International Car Rescue. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V.

listed as Van Eijck International Car Rescue · Claimed by Aurora · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Aurora
Status: Data leaked
Country: Netherlands
Sector: Transportation
Listed on leak site: Jul 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. is a family-owned Dutch towing and recovery company operating 225+ vehicles across 20 branch offices in the Netherlands and Spain, with 180+ employees providing roadside assistance and vehicle recovery services.

Industry: Towing & Vehicle Recovery Services
Employees: 180+

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed large-scale exfiltration of highly sensitive personal data including employee tax records and salary information, customer identity documents and financial/insurance details, spanning 500+ individuals over a decade. Includes regulated PII at scale across multiple data categories.

Aurora claims to have exfiltrated employee personal data, customer rental contracts, claims records spanning a decade, and complete Google Workspace backups including email, drive, and calendar for 18 user accounts and 206 groups.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

employee home directories (227)
personal documents
tax forms (loonheffingen)
salary records
employee photos and financial data
customer rental contracts (RentRunner)
identity documents (copies)
driving licenses (copies)
vehicle registrations
customer claims data (10 years, 500+ claims)
damage assessments
insurance details
customer PII
Google Workspace backup (Gmail, Drive, Calendar)

What the group claims

[recovery, rescue] Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. — a family-owned Dutch towing and recovery company with 225+ vehicles, 180+ employees, and 20 branch offices across the Netherlands and Spain. The exposed material includes: <censored> 227 employee home directories (156 GB) containing personal documents, tax forms (loonheffingen), salary records, photos, and financial data. 12 GB of RentRunner customer rental contracts with copies of identity documents, driving licenses, and vehicle registrations. 10 years of customer claims data (2010–2019) — 500+ individual claims with damage assessments, insurance details, and customer PII. Complete Google Workspace backup (CubeBackup) — Gmail, Drive, and Calendar for 18 user accounts and 206 groups. <censored>

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About aurora

Aurora is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks across multiple sectors. Given its recent emergence, limited public documentation exists regarding the group's specific country of origin or affiliations with established ransomware operations, though its targeting patterns suggest a professional operation potentially operating as an independent entity rather than a known Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for attacking business-critical sectors including business services, consumer services, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services, with documented attacks spanning the United States, Canada, the Maldives, and Great Britain, though specific initial access vectors and technical methodologies remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. With only seven known victims documented since April 2026, Aurora represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families, though its cross-sector targeting approach and international victim scope indicate deliberate selection criteria rather than opportunistic attacks. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited victim count and recent emergence suggest either a highly selective targeting approach or a nascent operation still developing its operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 25 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post July 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 30, 2026Van Eijck International Car Rescue listed by auroraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 25 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full aurora dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation sector, which has 46 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Van Eijck International Car Rescue is reported in Netherlands, a country with 42 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means Van Eijck International Car Rescue 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, NCSC-NL (Netherlands), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on aurora'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.