Was mirel hit by ransomware?

mirel was listed by the Donex ransomware operation (Belgium), 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 Donex ransomware group?

Donex 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 mirel breach?

Donex published data attributed to mirel. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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MIREL asbl

listed as mirel · Claimed by Donex · listed 2 years ago

29m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 8, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Donex
Status: Data leaked
Country: Belgium
Listed on leak site: Mar 8, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

MIREL asbl (Mission Régionale pour l'Emploi de Liège) is a regional employment and recruitment service organization based in Liège, Belgium. They provide recruitment and candidate selection services to companies, operating on a non-binding consultation basis.

Industry: Employment & Recruitment Services
Address: Liège, Belgium

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (disclosed_status confirms 'data_published'), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, no specific sensitive data categories are detailed in the available post excerpt, and no ransom was stated. MIREL asbl is a public employment service, so exposed data may be of moderate rather than critical sensitivity.

Donex claims to have compromised MIREL asbl and published data. The leak post indicates data exfiltration, though specific claims about what data was taken or the extent of encryption are not detailed in the provided excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

organizational records
employment data

What the group claims

Nous sommes votre partenaire en matière de recrutement et de sélection. Nous nous déplaçons sans engagement en entreprise afin de ...

Sources

Victim sitemirelasbl.be
Leak posthttp://g3h3klsev3eiofxhykmtenmdpi67wzmaixredk5pjuttbx7okcfkftqd.onion/f9ee69df8ca2/

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Donex

Donex is an emerging ransomware group first observed in March 2024 that appears to be financially motivated, having claimed five documented victims in its initial months of operation. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation by major security researchers, though their targeting patterns suggest a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families. Donex has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology and transportation/logistics sectors, with documented attacks spanning multiple continents including victims in Italy, Czech Republic, United States, Netherlands, and Belgium, indicating either a broad opportunistic approach or the use of initial access brokers with diverse geographic reach. The group has also shown interest in agriculture and food production entities, though specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the group's recent emergence in early 2024 and limited public reporting, Donex appears to remain active but operates at a significantly smaller scale than major ransomware families, with insufficient public documentation to determine their current operational status or any law enforcement disruption efforts. The group has been linked to 5 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 8, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 8, 2024mirel listed by Donexon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Donex

Donex has been linked to 5 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Donex dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, mirel is reported in Belgium, a country with 90 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Donex means mirel 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.be (Belgium), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Donex'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.