Was Al Hayat | Pepsi hit by ransomware?

Al Hayat | Pepsi was listed by the Global Secret Group ransomware operation (Iraq), 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 Global Secret Group ransomware group?

Global Secret Group 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 Al Hayat | Pepsi breach?

Global Secret Group published data attributed to Al Hayat | Pepsi. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Al Hayat Pepsi

listed as Al Hayat | Pepsi · Claimed by Global Secret Group · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Global Secret Group
Status: Data leaked
Country: Iraq
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Jul 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Al Hayat Pepsi is an Iraqi beverage distribution company based in Erbil that distributes PepsiCo brands including Pepsi, 7UP, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Aquafina, and Rockstar. The company operates across manufacturing, distribution, and merchandising channels with approximately 500–1,000 employees and an estimated annual revenue of $100 million.

Industry: Food & Beverage Distribution
Address: Makhmoor Street, Koran, Erbil, Iraq 44001
Employees: 501-1,000

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and public disclosure of a large dataset (138 GB) from a significant regional business with 500–1,000 employees. The data likely includes operational, financial, and employee records of commercial sensitivity.

Global Secret Group claims to have exfiltrated 138 GB of company data comprising 205,992 files and 17,178 folders. The group has published the stolen data; no ransom demand is stated.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business documents
Financial records
Employee information
Customer data
Distribution and merchandising records
Operational files

What the group claims

Sources

Victim sitealhayatco.com
Leak posthttp://o5lsqyar7ox25z734k6zaxt2vf7bsyi4q5rturi5iyxzqo3ica7bjsad.onion/project/25/

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Global Secret Group

Global Secret Group is a ransomware threat actor first observed in July 2026, with operations consistent with financially motivated cybercrime based on their targeting profile and victim patterns. The group has claimed or been attributed to 28 known victims across a relatively short operational window, suggesting an emerging or actively expanding operation. Given the limited public documentation available from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security research organizations at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. What is known from available victim and targeting data indicates the group predominantly focuses on organizations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Cyprus, with a clear sectoral preference for Technology, Retail and E-Commerce, Energy and Utilities, Professional Services, and Financial Services — a targeting pattern broadly consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking high-value data and organizations with both the ability and incentive to pay ransoms. The cross-sector and multi-national targeting pattern may suggest opportunistic intrusion methodology rather than a narrowly scoped, nation-state-aligned operation, though this assessment remains preliminary pending further public disclosure by authoritative sources. As of the time of this writing, Global Secret Group's operational infrastructure, affiliation with any ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem, specific malware tooling, and current active status have not been formally attributed or publicly documented by major threat intelligence authorities, and this profile will require revision as additional intelligence becomes available. The group has been linked to 31 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 26, 2026; most recent post July 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 26, 2026Al Hayat | Pepsi listed by Global Secret Groupon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Global Secret Group

Global Secret Group has been linked to 31 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 7 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Al Hayat | Pepsi is reported in Iraq, a country with 12 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Global Secret Group means Al Hayat | Pepsi 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Global Secret Group'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.