Ransomware victim disclosure

De Waard Transport

Claimed by play · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 25, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: play
Status: Data leaked
Country: NL
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: May 25, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

De Waard Transport is a Dutch international transport and logistics company specializing in daily transport between the Netherlands and Italy. They offer groupage, refrigerated transport, intermodal services, and warehousing, with certifications including BRC and SQAS for chemical industry compliance. The company operates from their headquarters in Noord-Scharwoude and maintains a subsidiary in northern Italy.

Industry: International Road Transport & Logistics
Address: De Mossel 18-20, 1723 HZ Noord-Scharwoude, Netherlands

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post is extremely sparse with no proof files, screenshots, or specific claims about data exfiltration or operational disruption mentioned. Only a listing/announcement is evident.

The Play ransomware group claims to have attacked De Waard Transport. The leak post provides minimal detail; no specific claims about data exfiltration or encryption are stated in the available excerpt.

low

What the group claims

Netherlands

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About play

**Overview:** Play (also known as PlayCrypt) is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in late 2022, conducting targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on financial extortion. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin remains unclear based on public reporting, though they appear to operate independently rather than as a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. **Attack Methodology:** Play ransomware operators typically gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials and exploit valid accounts, then move laterally through networks using tools like Cobalt Strike before deploying their custom ransomware payload. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. **Notable Campaigns:** According to CISA advisories, Play has targeted over 300 entities globally since its emergence, with significant impacts on critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, and government services, though specific ransom amounts and individual victim details vary in public reporting. **Current Status:** Play remains an active threat as of 2024, continuing to target organizations primarily in North America and Europe according to ongoing security researcher observations and law enforcement warnings. The group has been linked to 1,288 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 26, 2022; most recent post May 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: PlayCrypt.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 25, 2026De Waard Transport listed by playon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 847 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, De Waard Transport is reported in NL, a country with 24 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.