Was bnext.nl hit by ransomware?

bnext.nl was listed by the Black Basta 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 Black Basta ransomware group?

Black Basta 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 bnext.nl breach?

Black Basta published data attributed to bnext.nl (~500 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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bnext.nl

Claimed by Black Basta · listed 2 years ago

500 GB

Data size

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 11, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Black Basta
Status: Data leaked
Country: Netherlands
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Jan 11, 2025
Data size: 500 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bnext.nl is a Dutch waste management and recycling company established in 1992, specializing in construction and demolition waste processing. Operating 90 locations across the Netherlands, the company processes approximately 1.6 million tonnes of waste streams annually and serves diverse sectors including hospitality, retail, real estate, construction, and events.

Industry: Waste Management & Recycling
Address: Ankerweg 16, 1041 AT Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 1992

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 500 GB including employee PII, financial records, and confidential business contracts at a significant operational scale company. Data has been published.

Black Basta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 500 GB of data from Bnext.nl, including financial records, accounting data, confidential contracts, employee personal information, and project documentation. The group has published the data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial data
Accounting records
Confidential contracts
Employee personal data
Project information

What the group claims

Bnext.nl is a Dutch company specializing in sustainable waste management and recycling, particularly in the construction and demolition sectors. Established in 1992, Bnext has evolved from a supporting agency in demolition and infrastructure to a significant player in the recycling of construction materials and the processing of industrial waste.SITE: www.Bnext.nlADDRESS: Ankerweg 16 1041 AT Amsterdam NetherlandsTEL#: +31 (0) 88 260 01 12ALL DATA SIZE: ≈500gb+ 1. Financial data, Accounting 2. Contracts, Confidential data 3. Personal employees data 4. Projects data & etc…

Sources

Victim sitebnext.nl

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Black Basta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has since compromised approximately 800 organizations worldwide. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with suspected ties to the now-defunct Conti ransomware operation, though their exact country of origin remains unconfirmed by law enforcement agencies. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of known vulnerabilities, and credential stuffing attacks, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware that employs ChaCha20 encryption algorithm and employs double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with a particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. Notable victims have included various healthcare systems and manufacturing companies, though specific ransom amounts and high-profile attacks have not been widely disclosed in public law enforcement advisories. As of 2024, Black Basta remains an active threat with continued operations and regular updates to their leak site indicating ongoing compromise activities. The group has been linked to 1,323 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2022; most recent post January 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: BlackBasta.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 11, 2025bnext.nl listed by Black Bastaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 500 GB

Other recent disclosures by Black Basta

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, bnext.nl is reported in Netherlands, a country with 150 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black Basta means bnext.nl 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 Black Basta'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.