Was Prime Beverage Group hit by ransomware?

Prime Beverage Group was listed by the worldleaks ransomware operation (United States), 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 worldleaks ransomware group?

worldleaks 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 Prime Beverage Group breach?

worldleaks published data attributed to Prime Beverage Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Prime Beverage Group

Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 11 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 7, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Aug 7, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Prime Beverage Group is a beverage co-packing facility based in Charlotte, NC, specializing in manufacturing, packaging, storage, blending, and distribution services for premium alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. The company operates a 900,000+ square-foot FDA-certified facility and serves customers across the East Coast and Midwest via integrated supply chain solutions.

Industry: Beverage Co-packing & Distribution
Address: Charlotte, NC, United States

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by a ransomware group with disclosed status confirmed, but no proof files/screenshots are quantified in the available post, and no specific sensitive data categories (PII at scale, financial records, etc.) are explicitly mentioned. Impact is moderate due to confirmed publication but limited transparency on what was accessed.

The worldleaks group claims to have breached Prime Beverage Group and published data. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration scope, or affected data types are provided in the available leak post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Customer information
Supply chain data
Manufacturing documentation

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Prime Beverage Group is a private alcohol distribution company, recognized as a leader within the beverage industry and known for representing a diverse range of premium alcoholic beverages. It operates nationwide, offering customers a comprehensive services including effective sales, brand marketing and distribution. The group is committed to promoting responsible drinking practices.

Sources

Victim sitewww.primebev.com
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/5414479604

Source

Indexed 11 months ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 173 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 7, 2025Prime Beverage Group listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by worldleaks

worldleaks has been linked to 173 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Prime Beverage Group is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Prime Beverage Group 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 worldleaks'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.