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DistributionNOW Inc.

listed as DistributionNOW (DNOW Inc.) · Claimed by Falcon · listed 16 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 30, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Falcon
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

DistributionNOW (DNOW Inc.) is a publicly traded (NYSE: DNOW) industrial distributor serving energy and industrial markets. The company operates a network of distribution centers and provides products and services including pumps, compressors, drilling equipment, pipe & fittings, safety equipment, and supply chain solutions across oil & gas, mining, utilities, and related sectors.

Industry
Industrial Distribution & Supply Chain Management

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant data volume (2.38 TB compressed) from a large publicly traded industrial distributor. Data includes corporate and operational records with potential sensitivity; disclosed status indicates publication. Scale and business-criticality of compromised organization elevates severity despite lack of detail on specific regulated datasets.

Falcon claims to have exfiltrated 2.38 TB of compressed data (2.96 TB uncompressed) from DistributionNOW. The leak post contains no specific enumeration of data types but references 'Medical devices' and NYSE ticker, suggesting access to operational and corporate records.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate records
  • Operational data
  • Business systems data

What the group claims

Energy & industrial distribution · NYSE: DNOW - Our 344 GB extraction includes your corporate information, corporate bank statements, vendor payment instructions, detailed payroll records, employee compensation, tax documents, operational secrets, proprietary SCADA gateway backups, PLC logic programs, industrial automation project files, internal audit logs detailing unethical activity investigations, whistleblower reports regarding harassment and discrimination, employee disciplinary records, employee PII, passports, driving licenses, medical drug screen results and much more.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
FALCON operates as a commercial entity. We hold no political or ideological allegiances, and we do not identify as activists. The internal conduct of your organization is not our concern. 
We conduct every negotiation on professional terms. The publication of your data is never our preferred resolution; it is the consequence of refusal to engage, deliberate stalling, or failure to honor an agreement. Respond promptly and in good faith, and the matter is resolved without further incident. 
Settlement closes the matter in full. Upon confirmation, all acquired material is destroyed and we disengage completely. No follow-up demands, no secondary disclosure, no residual leverage. We do not revisit resolved cases, and we do not share transaction details with any party. Once terms are honored, your incident is over and it stays over. 
  * 2.38 TB compressed · 2.96 TB uncompressed
Medical devices · NYSE: GMED


Identity verification is mandatory. No negotiation proceeds without it. Every communication bearing the FALCON name must be checked against our . In the event of a key rotation, the successor will be introduced in a statement on our , authenticated with the outgoing key, so continui…

Sources

Source

Indexed 16 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Falcon

Falcon is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, though limited public documentation exists given the group's recent emergence and low victim count. Based on available data, the group has claimed or been attributed to at least two known victims, with targeting concentrated in the United States across the manufacturing and healthcare sectors. Due to the group's nascent operational history and minimal coverage by major threat intelligence sources such as CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or comparable research organizations, detailed technical attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS infrastructure, specific initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, or extortion tactics cannot be responsibly stated at this time. The targeting of manufacturing and healthcare verticals is consistent with broader ransomware ecosystem trends, where threat actors prioritize sectors with low tolerance for operational downtime and heightened incentive to pay ransoms quickly. Falcon's current operational status remains unclear, and the group should be considered an emerging or low-visibility threat warranting continued monitoring as its activity profile develops. The group has been linked to 2 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 30, 2026DistributionNOW (DNOW Inc.) listed by Falconon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Falcon

Falcon has been linked to 2 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Falcon dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,695 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, DistributionNOW (DNOW Inc.) is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Falcon means DistributionNOW (DNOW Inc.) 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Falcon'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.