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Jones the Grocer

listed as www.jonesthegrocer.com · Claimed by Krybit · listed 6 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 24, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Krybit
Status
Data leaked
Country
Australia
Sector
Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site
Sep 24, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jones the Grocer is a premium gourmet food retailer and cafe brand founded in Sydney in 1996, now headquartered in Dubai. The company operates 24+ stores across the UAE and Middle East, offering curated artisan food products, bakery, patisserie, fromagerie, charcuterie, and specialty cafe services, with additional presence in Australia, China, New Zealand, and Singapore.

Industry
Premium Gourmet Food Retail & Cafe
Address
2504 Mazaya Business Avenue, BB1, JLT, Dubai, UAE
Founded
1996

Attack summary

Severity: low — The disclosure consists of publicly available or readily inferable business information (company history, store count, executive names, HQ address, revenue) with no indication of breached customer data, financial records, or operational systems. No proof files or screenshots are advertised. The post reads as an announcement rather than evidence of data exfiltration.

The krybit group claims to have attacked Jones the Grocer and published data. The leak post provides company operational and personnel details but does not explicitly state what data was exfiltrated or encrypted, nor does it specify the nature or scope of the compromise.

low

What the group claims

Jones the Grocer is a premium gourmet food retail and cafe brand founded in 1996 in Sydney, Australia, originally launch...

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Jones the Grocer is a premium gourmet food retail and cafe brand founded in 1996 in Sydney, Australia, originally launched as a flagship store in Woollahra, setting a new benchmark for Australian gourmet food stores by seamlessly fusing the growing cafe scene with a premium retail offering. Driven by the philosophy of "Gourmet Food for Everyday Living," Jones the Grocer sources and selects products from around the globe, focusing on natural ingredients produced by specialist and artisan suppliers, showcased through an innovative in-store cafe menu in a contemporary casual atmosphere. The brand subsequently expanded internationally, with its primary market now being the UAE and Middle East, operating 24+ stores. Core offerings include Food Retail, Bakery and Patisserie, Fromagerie and Charcuterie, and specialty cafe menus. Jones the Grocer also recently launched Jones Community Markets, a new weekend series bringing UAE-based businesses into its Al Manara space.
Global HQ: 2504 Mazaya Business Avenue, BB1, JLT, Dubai, UAE
TEL: +971 100 307 4109
CEO and Owner: Yunib Siddiqui
Director of Operations: Jason Thompson
Director of Culinary & Retail: Ben Warran
Head of HR: Issam Shibly
Head…

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About krybit

Krybit is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their limited documented attacks against diverse sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public intelligence, and it is unknown whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. With only four known victims documented across geographically diverse regions including Mexico, Austria, Japan, and Botswana, the group appears to employ broad targeting rather than focused regional or sector-specific campaigns, though their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and data exfiltration practices have not been publicly documented by major security firms or law enforcement agencies. No notable high-profile campaigns or significant ransoms have been publicly reported, and no law enforcement actions against the group have been documented. Given the recent emergence of this group and extremely limited public reporting, Krybit's current operational status and capabilities remain largely unknown to the broader cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 152 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 3, 2026; most recent post September 24, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 24, 2026www.jonesthegrocer.com listed by krybit on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by krybit

krybit has been linked to 152 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 Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.jonesthegrocer.com is reported in Australia, a country with 188 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by krybit means www.jonesthegrocer.com 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, ACSC (Australia), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on krybit'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.