Was 4Motive hit by ransomware?

4Motive was listed by the Spacebears 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 Spacebears ransomware group?

Spacebears 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 4Motive breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to 4Motive. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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4Motive

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 1 year ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 22, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Netherlands
Listed on leak site: May 22, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

4Motive is a Dutch importer and distributor of automotive parts, founded in 2012 by Paul van Diemen. The company specializes in importing exclusive brands such as HEPU, XEVO, Klarius, and Quinton Hazell, offering wholesale solutions to automotive retailers with competitive pricing, stock advisory, and overnight delivery across the Netherlands.

Industry: Automotive Parts Import & Distribution
Address: Samoaweg 3, 1432 BZ Aalsmeer, Netherlands
Founded: 2012

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data exfiltration with publication, including personal information and business documents. However, no specific data sensitivity details, scale, or operational impact is stated in the post.

Spacebears claims to have exfiltrated documents, personal information, and other files from 4Motive. The group has published data but provided no ransom demand.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Documents
Personal information
Business files

What the group claims

4Motive was founded in 2012 by the current owner Paul van Diemen and has grown into a serious player in the field of importing and distributing car parts.We consciously choose to import brands that are not carried by other importers. This sets us apart from the competition and our customers can in turn distinguish themselves from other wholesalers.-Documents-Personal information-Other files https://4motive.nl/

Sources

Victim site4motive.nl
Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/72/4motive

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 185 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 22, 20254Motive listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 185 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, 4Motive is reported in Netherlands, a country with 150 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means 4Motive 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 Spacebears'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.