Was FAKO-M Getränke hit by ransomware?

FAKO-M Getränke was listed by the Sarcoma 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 Sarcoma ransomware group?

Sarcoma 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 FAKO-M Getränke breach?

Sarcoma published data attributed to FAKO-M Getränke (~446 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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FAKO-M Getränke

Claimed by Sarcoma · listed 1 year ago

446 GB

Data size

15m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 20, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Sarcoma
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Listed on leak site: Apr 20, 2025
Data size: 446 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FAKO-M Getränke is a beverage and hospitality supplier operating in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The company distributes over 7,000 products across beverage, wine, spirits, coffee, and hygiene categories, and provides ancillary services including vending machine operation, event equipment rental, and financing solutions to the hospitality, retail, and consumer sectors.

Industry: Beverage Distribution & Hospitality Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 446 GB of data including database records from an operational business serving the hospitality sector. Scale and confirmed data publication warrant high severity, though no specific regulated data categories (PII at scale, financial, medical) are explicitly mentioned.

The Sarcoma group claims to have exfiltrated 446 GB of data from FAKO-M Getränke, including files and SQL databases. The group has published the stolen data.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Files (unspecified)
SQL databases

What the group claims

FAKO-M Getränke We, the Fako-M Group, see ourselves as a partner to the hospitality industry, retail, and end consumers. In our delivery area of North Rhine-Westphalia, we supply you with a comprehensive product range of over 7,000 items from the beverage, wine, spirits, coffee, and hygiene product categories. Our comprehensive offering is rounded out by services such as vending machine operation (cold and hot beverage, snack, and confectionery vending machines), event equipment, dispensing technology, financing advice, and leasing.Geo: Germany - Leak size: 446 GB Archive - Contains: Files, SQL

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Sarcoma

Sarcoma is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad international targeting approach with at least 140 documented victims across multiple countries and industry sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to its recent emergence, with no publicly documented connections to established ransomware families or confirmation of whether they operate as an independent entity or through a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information is available regarding Sarcoma's specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their targeting patterns suggest opportunistic rather than highly selective victim selection across diverse industries including manufacturing, business services, agriculture and food production, and technology sectors. The group has shown a particular focus on victims in the United States while also maintaining operations against targets in Italy, Canada, Germany, and Australia, though no specific high-profile attacks or record ransom demands have been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2024, Sarcoma appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities at this time. The group has been linked to 150 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 9, 2024; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Sarcoma Ransomware Group.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 20, 2025FAKO-M Getränke listed by Sarcomaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 446 GB

Other recent disclosures by Sarcoma

Sarcoma has been linked to 150 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Sarcoma dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, FAKO-M Getränke is reported in Germany, a country with 926 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Sarcoma means FAKO-M Getränke 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 Sarcoma'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.