Was Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling hit by ransomware?

Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling was listed by the worldleaks ransomware operation (Spain), 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 worldleaks ransomware group?

worldleaks 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 Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling breach?

worldleaks published data attributed to Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling

Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 22, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Apr 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC) is a licensed bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company operating across 13 countries in North and West Africa. The company produces, commercializes, and distributes Coca-Cola's beverage portfolio, achieving over 2 billion transactions per year through more than 250,000 points of sale. ECCBC employs more than 5,000 people and has been active since 1989.

Industry: Non-Alcoholic Beverage Bottling & Distribution
Employees: 5000+
Founded: 1989

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published by the threat actor, indicating successful exfiltration from a large multinational company with over 5,000 employees and operations across 13 African countries. The scale of the organisation and confirmed data publication elevate this beyond medium severity, though the absence of detail on data type (e.g. PII, financial, medical) and volume prevents a critical classification.

The worldleaks group has published data allegedly belonging to ECCBC, indicating exfiltration of company data with the disclosure status listed as data_published. No specific ransom demand or data volume was stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company internal data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company is a beverage manufacturer and distributor operating primarily in West and Central Africa, including countries such as Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. It produces and distributes Coca-Cola branded soft drinks and related beverages under license from The Coca-Cola Company. The company operates within the non-alcoholic beverage industry, managing bottling plants and regional distribution networks across its operating territories.

Sources

Victim sitewww.eccbc.com
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/5186331866

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 173 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 22, 2026Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by worldleaks

worldleaks has been linked to 173 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling is reported in Spain, a country with 128 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling 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, INCIBE-CERT (Spain), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on worldleaks'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.