Was vdhelm hit by ransomware?

vdhelm was listed by the Donex 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 Donex ransomware group?

Donex 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 vdhelm breach?

Donex published data attributed to vdhelm. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Van der Helm Logistics

listed as vdhelm · Claimed by Donex · listed 2 years ago

29m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 8, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Donex
Status: Data leaked
Country: Netherlands
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 8, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Van der Helm Logistics is a European fourth-party logistics (4PL) provider offering warehousing, customs clearance, freight forwarding, and transport services across multiple modalities. Based in the Netherlands with 88+ years of operational history and a global partner network, the company serves clients in fashion, raw materials, lifestyle, and high-tech sectors.

Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain Management (4PL)
Address: Den Hoor, Netherlands
Founded: 1936

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post is truncated and provides only a company description with no proof files, screenshots, data samples, or operational impact stated. No confirmation of exfiltration or encryption.

The Donex group claims to have breached Van der Helm Logistics. The leak post provides no detail on whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or what specific data is at stake.

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What the group claims

Van der Helm is a 4PL logistic service provider with a limitless passion for transport and logistics. From our offices in Den Hoor ...

Sources

Victim sitevanderhelmlogistics.com
Leak posthttp://g3h3klsev3eiofxhykmtenmdpi67wzmaixredk5pjuttbx7okcfkftqd.onion/e6fef7da33be/

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, 2024vdhelm listed by Donexon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Donex

Donex has been linked to 5 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Donex dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,563 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, vdhelm is reported in Netherlands, a country with 150 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Donex means vdhelm 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 Donex'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.