Was Fountain hit by ransomware?

Fountain was listed by the Dragonforce ransomware operation (Belgium), 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 Dragonforce ransomware group?

Dragonforce 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 Fountain breach?

Dragonforce published data attributed to Fountain. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Fountain

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 1, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Belgium
Listed on leak site: Apr 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fountain is a Belgian B2B company specialising in turnkey workplace coffee break solutions, serving over 20,000 businesses ranging from SMEs to large multisite enterprises. Its services include design and installation of customised coffee corners, supply of coffee machines and water dispensers, consumables delivery, and ongoing maintenance. The company also operates an online webshop for business clients.

Industry: Workplace Coffee & Water Solutions (B2B Beverage Services)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is stated as published by DragonForce, confirming exfiltration; however, no specific sensitive data categories (PII at scale, financial records, medical, etc.) are enumerated in the available leak post excerpt, and the victim is a mid-market B2B services company, limiting assessed severity to medium.

DragonForce claims to have exfiltrated data from Fountain and has published the data; the leak post indicates disclosed status of 'data_published' though the specific data categories and volume are not enumerated in the available excerpt.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate data (nature unspecified in excerpt)

What the group claims

Over the last 40 years, Fountain has established itself as Europe's leading supplier of drinks vending machines for businesses, delivering the widest range of solutions to organisations with 5 to 50 employees, as well as multi-site key account customers. The company now operates in 28 countries and has developed a strong reputation and identity, founded on personalised services and solutions, a wide range of tailor-made products, and a local distribution network. Here at Fountain, we provide our customers with a comprehensive service that covers cartridge and automatic machines, capsule machines, water fountains, accessories and snacks. Fountain distributes a vast range of both own-brand and third-party products. As such, it is able to meet the exacting demands of businesses and organisations looking to tailor their offer to the specific needs of their customers and/or staff, from precise quantities to consumer preferences. Fountain has been listed on the Euronext stock exchange since

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Dragonforce

Dragonforce is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in December 2023, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim selection. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their rapid accumulation of 439 documented victims suggests either sophisticated capabilities or possible connections to existing ransomware infrastructure. Based on their targeting patterns across diverse sectors including manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction, Dragonforce appears to employ opportunistic attack methodologies, though specific initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been publicly detailed by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Italy representing their most frequent victim locations, suggesting possible language capabilities or geographic operational preferences. As of current reporting, Dragonforce appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim acquisition, though the lack of detailed public analysis from major threat intelligence organizations indicates either operational security measures that have limited researcher visibility or that the group has not yet conducted sufficiently high-profile attacks to warrant extensive public documentation by CISA, FBI, or established security research firms. The group has been linked to 596 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 1, 2026Fountain listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

Geographically, Fountain is reported in Belgium, a country with 32 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Fountain 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 Dragonforce'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.