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Auto Auction of New England

Claimed by Play · listed 4 months ago

3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 19, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Play
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Consumer Services
Listed on leak site
Feb 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Auto Auction of New England is a wholesale automotive auction house operating since January 1995, headquartered in Londonderry, New Hampshire. The company facilitates dealer-to-dealer vehicle sales, offering services including transportation, reconditioning, mechanical services, key services, marketing, and floorplan financing. It serves licensed automotive dealers across New England through regular auction events.

Industry
Automotive Wholesale Auction Services
Address
8 Action Boulevard, Londonderry, New Hampshire 03053
Founded
1995

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (data_published status) by a known ransomware group, indicating confirmed exfiltration. The company handles sensitive dealer financial data, payment information, banking/wiring details, and business records across a regional dealer network, representing significant business and financial data exposure.

The Play ransomware group claims an attack on Auto Auction of New England, with the disclosure status listed as data_published, indicating that exfiltrated data has been released. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Dealer registration records
  • Business financial records
  • Payment and banking information
  • Dealer application data
  • Contact and account information
  • Floorplan financing records

What the group claims

United States

The leak post

captured from the group's site
| Play ransomware HAS NEVER PROVIDED AND DOES NOT PROVIDE THE RaaS, read the FAQ page.WE NEVER WRITES FIRST, IF SOMEONE WRITES TO YOU, THEY ARE SCAMMERS.we'll buy your access: 75tkvxemb6zpyk3fbl3mwm32jklc2sdjacb3kazrioamopbfn2w2z5qd.onionIf we have not responded to you by email within 12 hours, please leave your contact information on the website in the contact tab. |  
| --- |  
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Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months 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 1,304 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 26, 2022; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: PlayCrypt.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 19, 2026Auto Auction of New England listed by Playon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Play

Play has been linked to 1,304 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Play dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Auto Auction of New England is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Play means Auto Auction of New England 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.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Play'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.

Auto Auction of New England data breach — Play ransomware leak (2026) · Darkfield