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FAT Brands

Claimed by Dragonforce · listed 2 months ago

944037400576
Data size
$4
Ransom
demanded
2m
Age
since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 7, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group
Dragonforce
Status
Listed for ransom
Country
United States
Sector
Food/Franchising
Listed on leak site
May 7, 2026
Data size
944037400576
Ransom demanded
$4

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FAT Brands Inc. is a Los Angeles-based multi-brand restaurant franchising company that acquires, markets, and develops fast casual and casual dining restaurant concepts. The company owns and franchises numerous well-known brands including Fatburger, Round Table Pizza, Johnny Rockets, Twin Peaks, and others. FAT Brands operates thousands of locations across the United States and internationally.

Industry
Restaurant Franchising & Food Service
Address
11601 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90025, United States
Employees
1001-5000
Founded
1947

Attack summary

Severity: high — Approximately 944 GB of data is claimed as exfiltrated from a major multi-brand restaurant franchisor, likely containing employee PII, franchisee financial data, and business-sensitive records at significant scale; no confirmed regulated medical or government data identified.

Dragonforce claims to have exfiltrated approximately 944 GB of data from FAT Brands; the post lists the victim with a disclosed status of 'listed,' indicating the data or proof has been published or is pending publication on their leak site.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate financial records
  • Franchisee data
  • Employee PII
  • Customer data
  • Operational documents
  • Contracts and agreements

What the group claims

FAT Brands is a leading global franchising company that strategically acquires, promotes, and develops quick-service, fast-casual, and casual dining concepts around the world.

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 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

  • May 7, 2026FAT Brands listed by Dragonforceon the group's public leak site
Data size
944037400576
Ransom demanded
$4

Other recent disclosures by Dragonforce

Dragonforce has been linked to 627 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Dragonforce dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Food/Franchising sector. Geographically, FAT Brands is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Dragonforce means FAT Brands appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 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.