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Orth Automobile

Claimed by Play · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 30, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Play
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Sep 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Orth Automobile is a German automotive dealership and service provider operating multiple locations in Beselich and Idstein. They sell new and used vehicles from brands including Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, SEAT, CUPRA, KIA, and Hyundai, and operate service workshops offering maintenance, repair, and vehicle diagnostics.

Industry
Automotive Retail & Service
Address
Beselich and Idstein, Germany

Attack summary

Severity: low — Leak post is a bare listing with no proof files, no stated data exfiltration, no operational impact, and no details of what was compromised. Disclosure status is 'data_published' but no data size is recorded and the post excerpt contains no substantive claims.

The Play ransomware group claims to have attacked Orth Automobile. The leak post provides minimal detail; no specific data exfiltration or encryption claims are articulated in the truncated post excerpt.

low

What the group claims

Germany

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours 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 1,394 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 26, 2022; most recent post September 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: PlayCrypt.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 30, 2026Orth Automobile listed by Play on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Play

Play has been linked to 1,394 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Orth Automobile is reported in Germany, a country with 393 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Play means Orth Automobile 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 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.