Was goronco.com hit by ransomware?

goronco.com was listed by the toufan ransomware operation, 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 toufan ransomware group?

toufan 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 goronco.com breach?

toufan published data attributed to goronco.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Ronco Industrial Supply Co.

listed as goronco.com · Claimed by Toufan · listed 3 years ago

31m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 19, 2023
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Toufan
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Dec 19, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ronco Industrial Supply Co. (goronco.com) is a distributor of MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Operations) supplies, safety products, and janitorial and sanitation supplies, operating since 1977. The company serves industrial customers with a broad product catalog spanning cutting tools, hydraulics, power tools, abrasives, fasteners, welding, and more. It operates physical store locations and an e-commerce platform.

Industry: Industrial MRO & Safety Supplies Distribution
Founded: 1977

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is marked as published, indicating some level of exfiltration or disclosure has occurred, but no leak post details, data volume, or proof files were captured to confirm the scale or sensitivity of exposed data.

The Toufan ransomware group has listed Ronco Industrial Supply Co. as a victim with a disclosed/published status, claiming access to company data. No specific details about encryption, exfiltration scope, or ransom demand were captured in the leak post.

medium

Sources

Victim sitegoronco.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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Disclosure context

About toufan

Toufan is a ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a preference for targeting victims across Israel, Canada, Singapore, Australia, and Great Britain. The group has claimed responsibility for compromising 117 victims since its emergence, though detailed public documentation from major threat intelligence firms regarding their specific origin, country of operation, or organizational structure remains limited. Given the recent emergence of this group and the geographic distribution of their targeting, comprehensive technical analysis of their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and initial access vectors has not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting from established security research organizations. The group's targeting pattern suggests a focus on English-speaking countries and Israel, though the specific sectors or victim profiles they prioritize, along with details about ransom demands or notable high-profile compromises, have not been widely reported in mainstream cybersecurity intelligence channels. As a recently emerged threat actor first observed in late 2023, Toufan appears to remain active based on the accumulation of claimed victims, though comprehensive assessment of their current operational status requires further monitoring and analysis by established threat intelligence communities. The group has been linked to 117 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 17, 2023; most recent post December 27, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 19, 2023goronco.com listed by toufanon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by toufan

toufan has been linked to 117 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 Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by toufan means goronco.com 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on toufan'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.