Was Pot O’ Gold Coffee hit by ransomware?

Pot O’ Gold Coffee was listed by the Ciphbit 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 Ciphbit ransomware group?

Ciphbit 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 Pot O’ Gold Coffee breach?

Ciphbit published data attributed to Pot O’ Gold Coffee. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Pot O’ Gold Coffee

Claimed by Ciphbit · listed 2 years ago

29m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 25, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ciphbit
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 25, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pot O' Gold Coffee Service is an independent office coffee and breakroom solutions provider founded in 1986, serving the greater Puget Sound region including Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Issaquah, Redmond, Renton, and Tacoma. They supply commercial brewing equipment, coffee, beverages, snacks, and maintenance services to office environments.

Industry: Office Coffee Service & Breakroom Supplies
Address: 13205 SE 30th St Suite 104, Bellevue, WA 98005
Founded: 1986

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only company marketing/descriptive content with no indication of actual data exfiltration, proof files, or operational disruption. No sensitive data categories are mentioned or evidenced.

The Ciphbit group has published data from Pot O' Gold Coffee Service. The specific nature of exfiltrated data and operational impact are not detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

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What the group claims

Pot O’ Gold was founded by Larry Jones in 1986 with the dream of providing the very best coffee, equipment and service to the office environment. Since then, we’ve grown to become the largest independent office coffee service in Washington state, expanding to include more than just coffee. Whatever you need for your office breakroom, whether it’s carbonated water coolers or delicious snacks, we’re able to supply you with it. Regardless of the size and demands of your office, we have a uniquely-suited program to meet it. We champion our customers’ needs, maintain quality relationships, and supply personal service recommendations uniquely suited to each individual client. We install commercial coffee brewing equipment (fresh brew, thermal, single cup, semi-auto espresso and fully-auto espresso equipment) in offices throughout the Puget Sound region. We provide routine cleaning and maintenance to this equipment while checking inventory and delivering quality coffee and related products. Over the years, we’ve gained considerable knowledge in the storing, brewing, serving and presentation of high-end coffees for an office environment. Everyone at Pot O’ Gold Coffee Service accepts the responsibilities involved with offering high-quality coffees on an institutional level. Our genuine commitment to provide true value and quality is supported by our investment in futuristic brewing designs and our comprehensive service programs

Sources

Victim sitepotogoldcoffee.com

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Ciphbit

Ciphbit is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in September 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focused targeting approach across Western nations. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they operate as an independent entity rather than a established ransomware-as-a-service model. With limited public documentation from authoritative sources like CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively analyzed or reported in open-source intelligence. The group has claimed responsibility for attacks against 36 documented victims, primarily concentrating their operations in the United States, Italy, France, Germany, and Portugal, with a notable preference for targeting business services, manufacturing, healthcare, and construction sectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Ciphbit have been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of current reporting. Based on available intelligence, Ciphbit appears to remain active as of late 2023, though their relatively recent emergence and limited public documentation make definitive status assessments challenging without additional confirmed reporting from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 14, 2023; most recent post February 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 25, 2024Pot O’ Gold Coffee listed by Ciphbiton the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ciphbit

Ciphbit has been linked to 36 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Pot O’ Gold Coffee is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ciphbit means Pot O’ Gold Coffee 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 Ciphbit'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.