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RAUCH Landmaschinenfabrik

listed as rauch.de · Claimed by Black Basta · listed 2 years ago

2 TB
Data size
1. Employees records
20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 19, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Black Basta
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site
Nov 19, 2024
Data size
2 TB
Records
1. Employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

RAUCH is a German family-owned manufacturer of fertilizer spreaders and winter service equipment, operating for over 100 years in its fifth generation. Based in Rheinmünster, the company positions itself as a global market leader in spreading technology, producing precision machinery for agriculture under the 'Made in Germany' standard with integrated R&D and manufacturing.

Industry
Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing – Precision Spreaders & Winter Service Equipment
Address
Victoria Boulevard E 200, 77836 Rheinmünster, Germany
Founded
1924

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 2 TB spanning employee PII, financial records, R&D/technical IP, and client data from a significant industrial manufacturer. Sensitive business and personal data at scale.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 2 TB of data from RAUCH, including employee personal documents, financial records, confidential business data, R&D projects and technical drawings, and client information. The group has published the data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee personal documents
  • Financial data
  • Confidential business data
  • R&D projects and technical drawings
  • Client records

What the group claims

RAUCH Streuer – Kompetenz in Entwicklung & Herstellung Seit mehr als 100 Jahren sind wir als Familienbetrieb nunmehr in fünfter Generation auf die Entwicklung und Herstellung von innovativen Düngerstreuern und funktionalen Lösungen für den Winterdienst spezialisiert. RAUCH Streuer setzen dabei national und international neue Standards an Effizienz und wirtschaftlichen Erfolg in der Landwirtschaft. Modernste und zukunftsweisende Technologien, eine immense Leistungsstärke, höchste Präzision in der Streugutausbringung, einfache Bedienbarkeit und maximale Sicherheit machen RAUCH Streuer zum Garanten im täglichen Einsatz. So sind wir heute weltweiter Marktführer im Bereich der Dünge- und Streutechnik. Für Sie gehen wir immer die Extrameile und stellen höchste Ansprüche an die Qualität unserer RAUCH Streuer. In der RAUCH Landmaschinenfabrik suchen wir immer wieder nach neuen Möglichkeiten und Lösungen, wie wir Sie noch besser dabei unterstützen, Ihre Herausforderungen auf dem Feld oder der Straße zu meistern. Wir bieten Ihnen eine große Auswahl an unterschiedlichen Leistungsklassen der Streuer, die wir kompromisslos in der RAUCH Manufaktur „Made in Germany“ produzieren.SITE: www.rauch.de Address : Victoria Boulevard E 200 77836 Rheinmünster • GermanyTEL#: +49 (0) 7229 8580-0ALL DATA SIZE: ≈2tb 1. Employees personal documents 2. Financial data 3. Confidential data 4. Projects, Drawings, RnD(FuE) 5. Clients & etc…

Sources

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

  • November 19, 2024rauch.de listed by Black Bastaon the group's public leak site
Data size
2 TB
Records
1. Employees

Other recent disclosures by Black Basta

Black Basta has been linked to 1,323 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, rauch.de is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black Basta means rauch.de 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, CERT-Bund (Germany), 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.