Was LEMKEN hit by ransomware?

LEMKEN was listed by the 8Base ransomware operation (France), 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 8Base ransomware group?

8Base 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 LEMKEN breach?

8Base published data attributed to LEMKEN. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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LEMKEN

Claimed by 8Base · listed 2 years ago

$400M

Ransom

demanded

26m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 20, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: 8Base
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: May 20, 2024
Ransom demanded: $400M

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

LEMKEN is a German family-owned agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1780, now with 1,600 employees worldwide and €400 million annual turnover. The company designs and manufactures tillage implements, seed drills, hoeing machines, fertiliser spreaders, and digital agriculture solutions for sustainable farming.

Industry: Agricultural Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing
Employees: 1600
Founded: 1780

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published on dark web with high ransom demand ($400M) suggests significant exfiltration, but the leak post provides no specific details about data type, sensitivity, or proof artifacts. No regulated/sensitive data categories (PII at scale, medical, financial, government) are explicitly mentioned. Medium confidence in actual breach scope.

The 8Base group claims to have compromised LEMKEN and exfiltrated data. The group's post does not explicitly detail the type of attack (encryption vs. data theft) or specify which data categories were stolen.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

corporate systems
business records

What the group claims

LEMKEN enjoys a worldwide reputation as a visionary, sustainably operating company that makes an important contribution to profitable agriculture. A medium-sized German family company, LEMKEN has applied its expertise and passion for progress for 241 years, delivering solutions for the challenges confronting agriculture today and tomorrow. The company's product range includes tillage implements, seed drills, hoeing machines, fertiliser spreaders and smart solutions for agricultural data management. LEMKEN currently employs 1,600 staff worldwide and has an annual turnover of about €400 million. www.lemken.com

Sources

Victim sitelemken.com
Leak posthttp://xb6q2aggycmlcrjtbjendcnnwpmmwbosqaugxsqb4nx6cmod3emy7sad.onion/company/7890448

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About 8Base

8Base is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a rapid escalation in activity with 458 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation targeting predominantly Western markets. Based on publicly available victim data, 8Base appears to focus on opportunistic attacks against business services and manufacturing sectors, with the United States representing their primary target geography, followed by France, Brazil, Italy, and the United Kingdom, indicating a preference for developed economies with established digital infrastructure. The group has notably impacted healthcare and technology sectors alongside their primary business services focus, suggesting a broad targeting approach rather than sector-specific specialization. Given the group's recent emergence in 2023 and continued victim accumulation across diverse geographic and sectoral targets, 8Base appears to remain active as of current reporting periods, though detailed technical methodologies, specific attack vectors, and notable high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from major security agencies. The group has been linked to 458 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 23, 2023; most recent post February 1, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 20, 2024LEMKEN listed by 8Baseon the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $400M

Other recent disclosures by 8Base

8Base has been linked to 458 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, LEMKEN is reported in France, a country with 612 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by 8Base means LEMKEN 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-FR (France), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on 8Base'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.