Was Sofo Foods hit by ransomware?

Sofo Foods 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 Sofo Foods breach?

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

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Sofo Foods

Claimed by Payouts King · listed 11 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 21, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Payouts King
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Aug 21, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sofo Foods is one of the Midwest's largest family-owned food service distributors, in operation for over 75 years. The company specializes in Italian and Mediterranean food products, supplying thousands of items ranging from national brands to its own private-label lines to restaurants and retailers. It primarily serves customers across the Midwest and southeastern United States.

Industry: Food Service Distribution
Founded: 1949

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published (disclosed status: data_published), indicating some level of confirmed exfiltration, but no details on data type, volume, or sensitivity are provided in the leak post, preventing a higher classification.

The group 'payoutsking' claims to have attacked Sofo Foods and has published data, though the leak post provides no specific details on whether encryption or exfiltration occurred, nor any stated ransom demand or disclosed data volume.

medium

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Sofo Foods is a family-owned food distribution company specializing in Italian and Mediterranean products. Founded in 1949, the company offers a wide range of products including deli items, produce, bakery items, meats, and cheeses. Sofo Foods mainly serves restaurants and retailers in the midwest and southeastern regions of the United States. It also provides catering services, food preparation tips, and recipes to its clients.

Sources

Victim sitesofofoods.com
Leak posthttps:/payoutsgn7cy6uliwevdqspncjpfxpmzgirwl2au65la7rfs5x3qnbqd.onion/detail_post/D4OWGfMsgjgXMcZkj0GM

Source

Indexed 11 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

August 21, 2025Sofo Foods 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 Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 772 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sofo Foods 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 Sofo 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 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.