Was Accord Carton hit by ransomware?

Accord Carton was listed by the Payouts King ransomware operation (United States), 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 Payouts King ransomware group?

Payouts King 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 Accord Carton breach?

Payouts King published data attributed to Accord Carton. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Accord Carton

Claimed by Payouts King · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 25, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Nov 25, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Accord Carton is a family-owned company founded in 1940 and based in Alsip, Illinois, specializing in the design and manufacturing of high-quality folding cartons. The company serves clients across food and beverage, healthcare, and beauty products industries, offering services from structural design through production and inventory management. It has received multiple industry awards including the 2021 Folding Carton of the Year and holds G7 Master Certification.

Industry: Folding Carton & Packaging Manufacturing
Address: Alsip, Illinois, United States
Founded: 1940

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is reported as published, indicating exfiltration occurred, but no specific data types, volume, or regulated/sensitive data categories (e.g., PII at scale, medical, financial) are confirmed in the post. The company is a mid-sized manufacturing firm with no indication of critical infrastructure status.

The ransomware group 'payoutsking' claims to have attacked Accord Carton, with the disclosure status indicating data has been published. No specific ransom amount 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

Business operational data
Customer information
Internal company files

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Accord Carton is a family-owned company that specializes in designing and manufacturing high-quality folding cartons. Founded in 1940, the company is based in Alsip, Illinois. Accord Carton utilizes advanced printing and finishing technologies to produce innovative packaging design solutions. Their services are widely used across industries, including food and beverage, healthcare, and beauty products.

Sources

Victim siteaccordcarton.com
Leak posthttps:/payoutsgn7cy6uliwevdqspncjpfxpmzgirwl2au65la7rfs5x3qnbqd.onion/post/lCpBGHeOC00U2E3xVucq

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 25, 2025Accord Carton listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Payouts King

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Accord Carton is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means Accord Carton 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 Payouts King'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.