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Surati Sweet Mart

listed as suratisweetmart.com · Claimed by Lynx · listed 10 months ago

600 GB
Data size
9m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 2, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lynx
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Listed on leak site
Oct 2, 2025
Data size
600 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Surati Sweet Mart is a Toronto-based retailer specializing in authentic Indian snacks, sweets, and fast food, operating since 1981. The company serves customers through a physical retail store, a catering service, and online channels, offering products under the Surati, Shalini, and Golden brand lines. It also provides gift baskets and party favours and states it has been serving customers worldwide for over 70 years.

Industry
Indian Food Retail & Catering
Address
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded
1981

Attack summary

Severity: high — 600 GB of exfiltrated data has reportedly been published, indicating confirmed large-scale data exfiltration. While the company is a small food retailer rather than critical infrastructure, the volume of published data and potential inclusion of customer PII, financial records, and business data warrants a high severity rating.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated over 600 GB of data from Surati Sweet Mart and is threatening to leak or sell the data if the company does not respond. The post indicates data has been published (disclosed status: data_published).

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company data (unspecified, 600 GB)

What the group claims

We have over 600 GB of your data, if you dont want your data leak or sold, let us know

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Lynx

Lynx is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid scaling capabilities with 397 documented victims within their first few months of operation. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting patterns suggest a sophisticated operation that may operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on their victim distribution, Lynx appears to employ broad-spectrum targeting methodologies focusing heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Australia representing their primary geographic targets, while concentrating their attacks on manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation/logistics sectors, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not yet been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have gained significant public attention from law enforcement agencies or established threat intelligence firms. As of late 2024, Lynx appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or operational changes. The group has been linked to 414 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 2, 2025suratisweetmart.com listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site
Data size
600 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 829 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, suratisweetmart.com is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lynx means suratisweetmart.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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Lynx'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.