Was Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. hit by ransomware?

Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. was listed by the AUR0RA 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 AUR0RA ransomware group?

AUR0RA is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

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Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V.

Q: What data was leaked in the Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. breach?

AUR0RA published data attributed to Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. (~168 GB+), around 500+ claims, 227 employee home directories, 18 user accounts, 206 groups records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Claimed by AUR0RA · listed 3 hours ago

168 GB+

Data size

500+ claims, 227 employee home directories, 18 user accounts, 206 groups records

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 17, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: AUR0RA
Status: Data leaked
Country: Netherlands
Sector: Transportation & Recovery
Listed on leak site: Sep 17, 2026
Data size: 168 GB+
Records: 500+ claims, 227 employee home directories, 18 user accounts, 206 groups

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. is a family-owned Dutch towing and recovery company operating 225+ vehicles across 20 branch offices in the Netherlands and Spain, with a workforce of 180+ employees providing roadside assistance and vehicle recovery services.

Industry: Towing & Vehicle Recovery Services
Address: Langendijk 5, 5652 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Employees: 180+

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated/sensitive data at scale: employee PII including tax records and salary information, customer identity documents and driving licenses, 10 years of claims data with personal information, complete identity infrastructure credentials, and financial database access. Compromises both operational security and data protection compliance obligations.

AUR0RA claims to have exfiltrated 168 GB+ of data including identity infrastructure credentials (Azure AD Connect service account), 9 KeePass password vaults, firewall configurations for all 20 branches, employee personal and financial records, customer rental contracts with identity documents, 10 years of claims data with customer PII, complete Google Workspace backup, and Unit4 ERP database admin credentials.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Azure AD Connect service account credentials
KeePass password vaults (9 total)
FortiGate firewall configurations and credentials
Employee home directories (227, 156 GB) with tax forms and salary records
Customer rental contracts with identity documents and driving licenses
10 years customer claims data (500+ claims) with insurance details
Google Workspace backup (Gmail, Drive, Calendar)
Unit4 ERP financial databases
Vehicle registrations

What the group claims

Family-owned Dutch towing and recovery company with 225+ vehicles, 180+ employees, and 20 branch offices across the Netherlands and Spain. Exposed data includes Azure AD Connect service account password, KeePass vaults, FortiGate firewall configurations, employee home directories, RentRunner customer rental contracts, customer claims data, Google Workspace backup, and Unit4 ERP admin credentials.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

# Van Eijck International Car Rescue
Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. — a family-owned Dutch towing and recovery company with 225+ vehicles, 180+ employees, and 20 branch offices across the Netherlands and Spain. The exposed material includes: The Azure AD Connect service account password in plaintext — the credential that synchronises every identity between on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft 365. One password = control of the entire identity infrastructure. 9 KeePass password vaults (6 company copies + 1 MSP vault + 2 personal), distributed across IT admin home directories. If the master password is weak, the attacker owns every credential the company has. FortiGate firewall configurations for all 20 branch offices — admin password hashes, VPN pre-shared keys, RADIUS secrets, SNMP community strings, complete firewall rulesets, NAT tables, and internal IP architecture. 227 employee home directories (156 GB) containing personal documents, tax forms (loonheffingen), salary records, photos, and financial data. 12 GB of RentRunner customer rental contracts with copies of identity documents, driving licenses, and vehicle registrations. 10 years of customer claims data (20…

Data the group says was taken

credentials
firewall configurations
employee personal documents
tax records
salary records
customer contracts
identity documents
driving licenses
vehicle registrations
insurance details
customer PII
email backups
financial databases
ERP credentials
password vaults

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V.

Sources

Leak posthttp://u6lieui2dakbctcjea2bz4r4q32r7t36nwljovqbv7mxs6o2smgxixid.onion/blog/van-eijck-international-car-rescue-91e93f21

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About AUR0RA

AUR0RA is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least five known victims across the United States, Canada, and Australia. Given the recency of the group's emergence and the limited number of confirmed victims, detailed public attribution from major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, the FBI, or Mandiant has not yet been established, and as such claims regarding origin, affiliation, or operational infrastructure cannot be responsibly made at this time. The group's targeting pattern suggests a deliberate focus on mid-market industries including commercial interiors, real estate and title insurance, warehousing and material handling, manufacturing, and oil and gas and industrial manufacturing sectors, which may indicate an opportunistic selection strategy or a preference for organizations with potentially sensitive operational or financial data and limited cybersecurity maturity. No specific attack methodology, tooling, or extortion tactics have been publicly documented by reputable sources for this group as of the time of this writing, though the sector targeting profile is consistent with groups known to conduct double extortion operations. AUR0RA should be considered an emerging threat actor under active monitoring, with its current operational status assessed as active based on the recency of first observed activity and the absence of any publicly reported law enforcement disruption or disbandment. The group has been linked to 19 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2026; most recent post September 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 17, 2026Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. listed by AUR0RA on the group's public leak site

Data size: 168 GB+
Records: 500+ claims, 227 employee home directories, 18 user accounts, 206 groups

Other recent disclosures by AUR0RA

AUR0RA has been linked to 19 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 Transportation & Recovery sector. Geographically, Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. is reported in Netherlands, a country with 150 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AUR0RA means Van Eijck International Car Rescue B.V. 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 AUR0RA'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.