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Vernon Sales

Claimed by Sinobi · listed 6 months ago

6m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 11, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Sinobi
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Jan 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vernon Sales is a wholesale supplier serving dollar stores, discount stores, 99-cent stores, and convenience stores in the United States. The company provides a broad range of merchandise suited to low-price retail formats. It is described as a leading supplier in its niche within the US market.

Industry
Dollar Store & Discount Retail Supply (Wholesale)

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating some data has been released, but no details on the type, volume, or sensitivity of the data are provided in the leak post, and no regulated or large-scale PII exposure is confirmed.

The Sinobi ransomware group claims to have attacked Vernon Sales and has published data related to the incident; no specific ransom amount was stated and no details on encryption or precise exfiltration volume were provided in the post.

medium

What the group claims

Vernon Sales is a leading dollar store supplier in the United States. Here you can find everything you need for your dollar store, discount store, 99 cent store, convenience store.

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

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Disclosure context

About sinobi

Based on the limited publicly available information, Sinobi appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in July 2025, with financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of 268 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reporting, and there is no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major security research organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than highly selective operations. The group demonstrates a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy, with a focus on manufacturing, healthcare, construction, and technology sectors, suggesting they may exploit common vulnerabilities across these industries rather than deploying sophisticated, sector-specific attack vectors. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against Sinobi have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence timeline and lack of extensive public documentation, the group's current operational status and long-term trajectory remain unclear, though the substantial victim count suggests continued activity as of the last available reporting period. The group has been linked to 274 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 5, 2025; most recent post May 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 11, 2026Vernon Sales listed by sinobion the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by sinobi

sinobi has been linked to 274 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full sinobi dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Vernon Sales is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by sinobi means Vernon Sales 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 sinobi'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.