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CHOCOTOPIA

bd_d19d25f635925f10 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Feb 27, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for CHOCOTOPIA

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Donex on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2024-03-08

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Chocotopia is a center of entertainment in the heart of Prague. You can visit here Museum of Chocolate and experience Chocolate ...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 27, 2024

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-02-22

donex

According to ransomware.live, DoNex is a ransomware strain that emerged in March 2024 as the latest rebrand of a lineage beginning with Muse (2022) → DarkRace (2023) → DoNex, targeting enterprises in the US and Europe using double-extortion; Avast released a free decryptor in July 2024 after discovering a cryptographic flaw.

5 victims claimed globally5 tracked hereFull profile →