Was Access Equipment Hire hit by ransomware?

Access Equipment Hire was listed by the Dragonforce ransomware operation (Australia), 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 Access Equipment Hire breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Access Group International

listed as Access Equipment Hire · Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Dragonforce
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Jul 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Access Group International is a privately owned provider of access equipment, material handling, power generation, and construction equipment across Australia. With 750+ employees globally and 68+ depot locations, they offer integrated services including equipment rental, maintenance, OEM manufacturing, transport, logistics, and workforce solutions to support major industrial projects.

Industry: Equipment Rental & Hire - Access, Material Handling, Power Generation, Construction
Employees: 750+

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a generic company description with no specific data types disclosed, no proof files referenced, and no ransom demand stated. Classification as listing/announcement without confirmed data exposure evidence.

The dragonforce group claims to have compromised Access Group International and published data. The post does not specify what data was exfiltrated or the scope of operational impact.

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What the group claims

Access Group International is a leading privately owned provider of access, material handling, power generation, and construction equipment. The company is dedicated to safety, performance, and reliability, serving Australia's demanding industries with dependable equipment and expertise. Their integrated services include maintenance, OEM manufacturing, transport, logistics, and workforce solutions, allowing for seamless project support. With a focus on adaptability and tailored solutions, Access Group International is a trusted partner for projects of all sizes.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 days 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 627 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 13, 2023; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DRAGON FORCE.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 11, 2026Access Equipment Hire listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 627 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. Geographically, Access Equipment Hire is reported in Australia, a country with 185 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means Access Equipment Hire 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.