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DHX–Dependable Hawaiian Express

Claimed by Knight · listed 2 years ago

20 GB
Data size
29m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedFeb 12, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Knight
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site
Feb 12, 2024
Data size
20 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DHX–Dependable Hawaiian Express is an ocean and air freight shipping company specializing in domestic and international cargo services. Primary focus is Full Container Load (FCL) and Less Than Container Load (LCL) ocean freight to/from Hawaii, Guam, and Alaska, with transcontinental trucking and intermodal services. The company operates from major U.S. west coast ports and maintains multiple domestic and Pacific Rim locations.

Industry
Ocean & Air Freight Logistics
Address
Los Angeles, CA (headquarters); additional offices in Chicago, Commerce, Guam, Honolulu, Kailua-Kona, Maui, Oakland, Seattle

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 20 GB of accounting/financial documents from a logistics company handling sensitive shipment and customer data. No operational disruption stated, but financial records exposure and backup system compromise pose significant business and customer data risks.

Knight ransomware group claims to have stolen 20 GB of accounting documents and accessed a backup NAS server. The group has published the stolen data, indicating exfiltration rather than encryption-only attack.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • accounting documents
  • backup NAS server contents

What the group claims

DHX–Dependable Hawaiian Express20 GB of accounting documents were stolenbackup NAS server stolenDHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express is the leading ocean freight company currently serving Hawaii and Guam. Offering ocean services, both Full Container Load (FCL) and Less Than Container Load (LCL), you can ship from all four west coast ports and throughout the continental U.S. to Hawaii and Guam. Using our transcontinental trucking network, we move LCL shipments from any point in the United States, and we offer FCL intermodal services to and from Hawaii and Guam. We also offer both LCL and FCL eastbound service from Hawaii and Guam to the continental U.S.DGX–Dependable Global Express Visit SiteDGX is one of the most respected international ocean and air freight service providers. DGX serves global ocean and air destinations through most ports or airports, to and from any point in the United States, as well as between foreign points. With consolidation, Full Container Load (FCL) and Less Than Container Load (LCL) services from most worldwide locations and all global origins to any point within the continental U.S., DGX has terminals and gateways in Long Beach, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Houston. Additionally we have 14 offices located throughout the Pacific Rim, Oceania, Asia and the Pacific Islands. See all DGX USA Gateway locations.Our air service offers the highest quality of global air freight service available within the air cargo industry. Shipments from 1 lb to 10,000 lbs or more can easily move door to door, or door to airport. Whether oversize, heavyweight or hazardous materials, we ensure that the integrity of your shipment is maintained throughout carriage. DGX is fully compliant with all U.S. Government agency rules and regulations including TSA, DHS, and FAA and is also IATA licensed.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Knight

Knight is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on targeting critical infrastructure and high-value sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With 48 known victims since their emergence, Knight has shown a preference for targeting organizations across the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany, with particular focus on healthcare, manufacturing, media, and government sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security firms, though their targeting of healthcare and government entities suggests they employ effective initial access techniques and likely utilize double extortion tactics common among contemporary ransomware groups. While specific notable campaigns have not been widely publicized by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's consistent activity across multiple countries and high-value sectors indicates sustained operational capability. Knight appears to remain active as of current reporting, though detailed technical analysis and specific law enforcement actions against the group have not been publicly documented by authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 48 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 6, 2023; most recent post February 12, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • February 12, 2024DHX–Dependable Hawaiian Express listed by Knighton the group's public leak site
Data size
20 GB

Other recent disclosures by Knight

Knight has been linked to 48 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Knight dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DHX–Dependable Hawaiian Express is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Knight means DHX–Dependable Hawaiian Express 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Knight'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.