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Gossler, Gobert & Wolters Group.

Claimed by Donutleaks · listed 3 years ago

2.6 TB
Data size
34m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 19, 2023
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Listed on leak site
Sep 19, 2023
Data size
2.6 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gossler, Gobert & Wolters Group is a German professional services firm. Based on the group name structure and sector classification, it is likely a law firm, auditing, or consulting partnership operating in Germany. No public site content was available to further characterize their scale or specific service lines.

Industry
Legal & Consulting Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — 2.6 TB of exfiltrated data including SQL databases and client records from a professional services firm strongly implies significant volumes of sensitive client business data; disclosure status is 'data_published' indicating exfiltration is confirmed rather than merely threatened.

Donutleaks claims to have exfiltrated approximately 2.6 TB of data including SQL databases and files from the company's network and file servers, threatening to publish the data in staged releases if the victim does not make contact.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • SQL databases
  • Client information
  • File server contents

What the group claims

[ 2,6Tb data-leakage coming soon ] We have a lot of information about your clients. We extract all your SQL databases from yourcomputers network and all your important data from your file servers - the file listing of the first pack of data which will leak if you do not contact…

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Donutleaks

Donutleaks is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a pattern of targeting critical infrastructure and business sectors across multiple countries. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in publicly available threat intelligence reports, with limited information available from major security firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their operational structure or potential ransomware-as-a-service model. Based on the limited public documentation available, the group has demonstrated a preference for attacking healthcare, technology, manufacturing, business services, and telecommunications sectors, with their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities not extensively detailed in current threat intelligence reporting. Donutleaks has been associated with approximately 42 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, Italy, Iran, and Spain, though specific high-profile campaigns or ransom demands have not been widely reported by major cybersecurity organizations or law enforcement agencies. The current operational status of Donutleaks remains unclear due to limited public threat intelligence coverage of this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 42 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 24, 2022; most recent post July 24, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 19, 2023Gossler, Gobert & Wolters Group. listed by Donutleakson the group's public leak site
Data size
2.6 TB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gossler, Gobert & Wolters Group. is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Donutleaks means Gossler, Gobert & Wolters Group. 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 Donutleaks'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.