Incidents in country:
6 incidents catalogued
Fountain, a Belgian stock-listed provider of workplace coffee and refreshment services, disclosed in early April 2026 a ransomware attack involving unauthorized access to part of its IT systems and confirmed data exfiltration, with the DragonForce group claiming responsibility.
A ransomware attack paralysed weaving-machine manufacturer Picanol's plants in Ieper (Belgium), Romania, and China, halting production for ~2,300 employees for over a week. Trading in Picanol shares was suspended during the disruption.
In December 2017, the Belgian motorcycle forum 2fast4u discovered a data breach of their system. The breach of the vBulletin message board impacted over 17k individual users and exposed email addresses, usersnames and salted MD5 passwords.
In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.
In June 2014, Domino's Pizza in France and Belgium was hacked by a group going by the name "Rex Mundi" and their customer data held to ransom. Domino's refused to pay the ransom and six months later, the attackers released the data along with troves of other hacked accounts.
In July 2018, the Belgian social networking site Netlog identified a data breach of their systems dating back to November 2012 (PDF). Although the service was discontinued in 2015, the data breach still impacted 49 million subscribers for whom email addresses and plain text passwords were exposed.