Was Economy Restaurant Equipment And Su... hit by ransomware?

Economy Restaurant Equipment And Su... was listed by the killsec 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 killsec ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Economy Restaurant Equipment And Su... breach?

killsec published data attributed to Economy Restaurant Equipment And Su.... Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Economy Restaurant Equipment And Su...

Claimed by Killsec · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 23, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Killsec
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Hospitality and Tourism
Listed on leak site: Oct 23, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Economy Restaurant Equipment & Supply Company is a full-service commercial kitchen equipment dealer and design/installation firm headquartered in San Marcos, California (San Diego County). With over 20 years of experience, the company serves restaurants, hotels, schools, healthcare facilities, and franchise chains across California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Texas. It operates a one-acre showroom and warehouse and represents major brands including Vulcan, Blodgett, True, Traulsen, and Manitowoc.

Industry: Commercial Kitchen Equipment & Foodservice Supply
Address: 1111 Grand Ave, San Marcos, CA 92078

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the threat actor, indicating confirmed exfiltration rather than a mere listing; however, no regulated or sensitive personal data (e.g., medical, financial at scale) has been specified, and no operational disruption to critical infrastructure is evident for this commercial equipment supplier.

KillSec claims to have compromised Economy Restaurant Equipment & Supply Company and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though no specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the post. The nature of the exfiltrated data has not been detailed in the leak post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Customer information
Internal company data

What the group claims

Economy Restaurant Equipment &amp; Supply Company is a premier dealer of restaurant and food service equipment in Southern California, specializing in a comprehensive range of products and services. The company offers professional kitchen equipment, design and planning services, and holds auctions for used equipment. Economy Restaurant Equipment stocks major brands such as Wolf, Vulcan, and True, providing everything from cooking appliances to dining supplies. With over 20 years of experience, the company is dedicated to helping food service establishments enhance their operations through quality products and expert design solutions.

Sources

Victim siteeconomyrestaurantequip.com

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About killsec

killsec is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in March 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating broad targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests opportunistic rather than geopolitically motivated operations. With 276 documented victims primarily concentrated in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Belgium, killsec appears to focus heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and financial sectors, indicating either specific tooling designed for these environments or opportunistic targeting of organizations with valuable data and high pressure to restore operations quickly. Given the group's recent emergence and the lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity firms like Mandiant or law enforcement advisories from CISA or FBI, specific details about their attack methodology, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, and extortion tactics have not been publicly documented in authoritative sources. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence profile suggests they may be either a smaller operation or one that has not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations despite their substantial victim count. The group has been linked to 281 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 21, 2024; most recent post June 3, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 23, 2025Economy Restaurant Equipment And Su... listed by killsecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by killsec

killsec has been linked to 281 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 Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 452 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Economy Restaurant Equipment And Su... is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by killsec means Economy Restaurant Equipment And Su... 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 killsec'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.