Ransomware victim disclosure

CHOCOTOPIA

Claimed by Donex · listed 2 years ago

27m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 8, 2024
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Donex
Status: Data leaked
Country: Czech Republic
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Mar 8, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Chocotopia is a chocolate-themed entertainment center located in Průhonice, Czech Republic, near Prague. It operates a chocolate museum, manufacturing facility, and experiential venue offering factory tours, chocolate-making workshops, team-building events, school trips, and birthday parties for visitors of all ages.

Industry: Food & Beverage Experience / Chocolate Museum & Entertainment
Address: V Oblouku 728, Průhonice, Czech Republic

Attack summary

Severity: low — Listing/announcement only with no technical proof, no explicit data exfiltration claims, no operational disruption stated, and no ransom demand. Victim is a small entertainment/retail business with limited sensitive data exposure risk.

The Donex group claims an attack on Chocotopia; the leak post provides minimal detail beyond a brief description of the facility. No specific data exfiltration or encryption claims are detailed in the truncated post excerpt.

low

What the group claims

Chocotopia is a center of entertainment in the heart of Prague. You can visit here Museum of Chocolate and experience Chocolate ...

Sources

Victim sitechocotopia.cz
Leak posthttp://g3h3klsev3eiofxhykmtenmdpi67wzmaixredk5pjuttbx7okcfkftqd.onion/00b5527c11cb/

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Donex

Donex is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2024 that appears to be financially motivated, having claimed five documented victims in its initial months of operation. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation by major security researchers, though their targeting patterns suggest a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families. Donex has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology and transportation/logistics sectors, with documented attacks spanning multiple continents including victims in Italy, Czech Republic, United States, Netherlands, and Belgium, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of initial access brokers with diverse geographic reach. The group has also shown interest in agriculture and food production entities, though specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the group's recent emergence in early 2024 and limited public reporting, Donex appears to remain active but operates at a significantly smaller scale than major ransomware families, with insufficient public documentation to determine their current operational status or any law enforcement disruption efforts. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 8, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 8, 2024CHOCOTOPIA listed by Donexon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CHOCOTOPIA is reported in Czech Republic, a country with 10 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.