Was Cedars Foods hit by ransomware?

Cedars Foods was listed by the thegentlemen 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 thegentlemen ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Cedars Foods breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Cedars Foods. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Cedar's Mediterranean Foods, Inc.

listed as Cedars Foods · Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 20 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cedar's Mediterranean Foods, Inc. is America's leading hummus and falafel brand, founded in 1981 by the Hamady family in Dearborn, Michigan. The company manufactures a range of Mediterranean products including hummus, falafel, baba ghanoush, and other specialty foods, distributed nationally through major retailers (Costco, Kroger, Walmart, Whole Foods) and foodservice suppliers (US Foods, Sysco).

Industry: Food Manufacturing & Distribution — Mediterranean Foods
Address: 45 Foundation Avenue, Ward Hill, MA 01835
Employees: 110-140
Founded: 1981

Attack summary

Severity: low — No proof files, screenshots, or data samples are advertised in the leak post. No confirmation of actual data exfiltration or operational impact. Listing only.

The threat actor claims to have compromised Cedar's Mediterranean Foods' systems. The leak post provides no details of what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or the nature of the attack.

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What the group claims

cedarsfoods.com zoominfo.com/c/cedars-mediterranean-foods-inc/22189641 Cedars Foods America's #1 hummus & falafel brand — a 1981-founded Dearborn, Michigan family company (the Hamady family, in the heart of the Arab-American community) that made Mediterranean food mainstream in the US. Products: hummus, falafel, baba ghanoush, taboule, dolmas, pita chips, kibbeh, tzatziki, toum — in retail formats (8–10 oz) and foodservice 10-lb boxes for US Foods, Sysco and Shamrock; clients: Costco, Kroger, Walmart, Whole Foods, Meijer — national reach from a Dearborn plant with ~110–140 staff

Sources

Victim sitecedarsfoods.com

Source

Indexed 20 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 868 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

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Timeline of this disclosure

September 15, 2026Cedars Foods listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 777 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cedars Foods is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Cedars Foods 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 thegentlemen'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.