Was wdk.de hit by ransomware?

wdk.de was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (Germany), 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 safepay ransomware group?

safepay 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 wdk.de breach?

safepay published data attributed to wdk.de. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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wdk Wirtschaftsverband der deutschen Kautschukindustrie e.V.

listed as wdk.de · Claimed by Safepay · listed 9 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 20, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Listed on leak site: Jul 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The wdk is the leading trade association representing German manufacturers of tyres and technical elastomer products, founded in 1950 and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It serves as the central voice for the German rubber industry, providing advocacy, standardization, and professional training in tyre technology and technical elastomer manufacturing.

Industry: Trade Association & Rubber Industry Representative
Address: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Founded: 1950

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data publication by ransomware group with no ransom demand stated; organisation is a non-profit trade association (limited sensitive PII at scale compared to commercial entities); no proof files or data sample counts provided in available excerpt.

The SafePay group claims to have exfiltrated data from wdk's systems. The specific nature of exfiltrated data and operational impact are not detailed in the truncated leak post.

medium

What the group claims

Founded in 1950 and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, the organization serves as the central voice of German manufacturers of …

Sources

Victim sitewdk.de
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion/blog/post/wdkde/

Source

Indexed 9 days ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 632 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post July 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 20, 2026wdk.de listed by safepayon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 632 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, wdk.de is reported in Germany, a country with 380 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means wdk.de 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 safepay'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.