FBC
β Listed in the last 48hAbout the organisation
Furniture Bargaining Council in South Africa. This is the tariff council for the furniture, mattress and upholstery industry.The platform serves employers and employees in the industry in regions such as Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the Free State to handle legal and administrative processes.
ShellCodeX evidence assessment
Strong record Β· 75/100. Strong record completeness based on identity, context and retained source evidence. This score does not verify the attacker's allegation.
- A plausible organisation domain is attached to the claim.
- The record includes organisation-specific context rather than only a victim name.
- Country attribution is available for geographic context.
- A source listing reference is retained for traceability.
- The named group has multiple recent claims in the tracker.
What the listing means
FBC appeared on the Deadlock leak site on 24 August 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 15 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing FBC as suspicious β leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on furnbed.co.za, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach β check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/RkJDQERlYWRsb2Nr