Was AP Lettering hit by ransomware?

AP Lettering was listed by the Spacebears 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 Spacebears ransomware group?

Spacebears 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 AP Lettering breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to AP Lettering. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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AP Lettering

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 1 year ago

13m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 11, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Belgium
Listed on leak site: Jun 11, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AP Lettering is a Belgian specialist in creative application of self-adhesive materials and signage. Based in Forest, Brussels, they provide services including digital printing, vehicle lettering, shop window displays, glass sandblasting, independent letters, protective films, and signage across multiple support types.

Industry: Sign Making & Digital Printing
Address: Chaussée de Ruisbroek 71, 1090 Forest, Belgium

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of multiple data categories including financial documents and personal information (PII) of both employees and clients, though scale and specifics of PII are not detailed.

Spacebears claims to have exfiltrated a database containing financial documents and personal information of employees and clients from AP Lettering.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

customer database
financial documents
employee personal information
client personal information

What the group claims

AP Lettering is the specialist par excellence in the creative application of self-adhesive materials- Database- Financial documents- Personal information of employees and clients https://aplettering.be/

Sources

Victim siteaplettering.be
Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/75/ap-lettering

Source

Indexed 1 year ago

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 185 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 11, 2025AP Lettering listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 185 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, AP Lettering is reported in Belgium, a country with 90 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means AP Lettering 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.be (Belgium), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Spacebears'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.